AbiWord 2.7.3 Beta

AbiWord 免費擁有與微軟公司所出產的Office系列之一的WORD軟體一樣的功能，介面和操作方式對常使用的WORD人而言，能非常快速的上手來使用。

• 要使用辦公室應用軟體，再便宜的版本也要花幾千元，而此軟體則不需要花你一毛錢，只需要下載回來安裝即可使用。
• 操作介面要說跟WORD一樣應該也不為過，你只要有用過WORD軟體，在使用上就沒有什麼太大的問題。
• 此軟體的檔案非常小，只佔硬碟空間近6MB的空間，開啟文件的速度比WORD還要快，存成的檔案格式是支援WORD的DOC檔。

Core
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* Bug 12108: AbiWord crashes when inserting zero-length spans (sum1)
* Fix an intermittent crash on exit with documents that contain many equations (Martin Sevior)
* Improve support for multiple carets in collaboration sessions (Martin Sevior, Marc Maurer)
* Prevent font changes when printing (Martin Sevior)
* Repair documents that contain invalid headers and footers (Martin Sevior)


GUI
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GTK+

* Bug 12102: Criticals and warnings after closing print preview (Hubert Figuiere)
* Fix the background color selector in the font dialog (Dominic Lachowicz)
* Increase the row limit to 2000 in the table dialog (Martin Sevior)
* Make the image dialog use less screen space (Hubert Figuiere)

Maemo

* Bug 11396: Fix the input method (Hubert Figuiere)
* Bug 11442: Use simplified toolbars and menus for the Maemo build (Hubert Figuiere)
* Add a file-type selector to the save dialog (Hubert Figuiere)
* Add indent and unindent buttons to the toolbar (Hubert Figuiere)
* Adjust the preferences dialog to fit the small screen (Hubert Figuiere)
* Fix the table dialog (Hubert Figuiere)
* Make AbiWord exit when the last document frame is closed (Hubert Figuiere)
* Make the image dialog use less screen space (Hubert Figuiere)


Internationalization
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* Update the Slovenian (sl-SI) translation (Martin Srebotnjak)


Development
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* Add a number of files to the source distribution (Fridrich Strba, Marc Maurer, Hubert Figuiere)
* Fix a bunch of compiler warnings (Marc Maurer)
* Fix compiler warnings that occurred when building the Maemo port (Hubert Figuiere)
* Fix some format string warnings (Hubert Figuiere)
* Fix the MinGW build (Fridrich Strba)
* Improve the build system to handle Maemo builds better (Hubert Figuiere)
* Maintain and release 2.7.3 (Marc Maurer)
* Use libtool to handle static and dynamic build options instead of using custom code (Hubert Figuiere)