AbiWord 2.7.5 Beta

Core

* Bug 10781: Equations cannot be pasted between documents (Martin Sevior)
* Bug 11158: Document with hidden text causes an assert (Hubert Figuiere)
* Make sure documents are printed with the exact number of pages and correct page size (Marc Maurer and Martin Sevior)


GUI

Cross-platform
* Attach modeless dialogs to the application rather than the document frame (Martin Sevior)
* Fix a crash when using the equation dialog with multiple documents (Martin Sevior)

Windows
* Bug 2362: AbiWord only prints across half of the page (Marc Maurer)
* Bug 11212: Crash when deleting pasted image (Hubert Figuiere)
* Bug 12150: Crash when trying to preview annotations (sum1)
* Make copying and pasting from other applications work again (Marc Maurer)


Import/Export

General
* Add support for importing some corrupted files (Hubert Figuiere)
* Fix image-related memory leaks in a few importers (Hubert Figuiere)

HTML
* Bug 10897: Pasting a table from Firefox causes an assert (Hubert Figuiere)
* Add a JavaScript helper to display SVG and MathML elements in exported HTML 4 files (Martin Sevior)

Microsoft Word
* Bug 12133: Word meta data imported with wrong character encoding (Tomáš Novák)

Office OpenXML
* Prevent the potential use of invalid properties and attributes in the importer (Hubert Figuiere)

OpenDocument
* Bug 11904: AbiWord won't import an invalid OpenDocument file (Hubert Figuiere)
* Bug 12132: Invalid meta data files caused by multi-byte strings (Hubert Figuiere)
* Differentiate between "as-char" and "char" anchoring in the importer (Marc Maurer)
* Fix some memory leaks in the importer (Hubert Figuiere)
* Import positioned images inside of headers and footers as inline images until AbiWord can support them properly (Marc Maurer)
* Import text boxes anchored to characters instead of silently ignoring them (Marc Maurer)

RTF
* Bug 6266: Import images from embedded objects in RTF files (Hubert Figuiere)
* Add support for importing and exporting equations (Martin Sevior)

StarOffice
* Bug 12146: Remove some exception handling from the StarOffice importer (Hubert Figuiere)


Internationalization

* Bug 11257: Rephrase the position strings in the page number dialog (Benno Schulenberg)
* Bug 12145: Updated Arabic (ar) translation (Khaled Hosny)
* Update the German (de-DE) translation (Volker Ribbert and Gerrit)
* Update the Slovak (sk-SK) translation (Jaroslav Rynik)


Development

Cross-platform
* Disable the grammar plug-in when spelling support is disabled (Hubert Figuiere)
* Display messages for missing and detected collaboration back-ends (Robert Staudinger)
* Maintain and release 2.7.5 (Marc Maurer)
* Make the bitmap plug-in available on all platforms (Hubert Figuiere)
* Make the rsvg plug-in available on all platforms (Fridrich Strba)
* Remove dialog stub files from the distribution (Marc Maurer)
* Remove the symlink switch from autoreconf to enable building the same source tree in different directories (Hubert Figuiere)
* Replace custom exception code throughout the codebase (Hubert Figuiere)
* Replace custom string maps and vectors with standard containers in the OpenDocument plug-in (Hubert Figuiere)

Windows
* Fix the collaboration plug-in build with MinGW (Fridrich Strba)
* Fix the parallel building of plug-ins with MinGW (Fridrich Strba)
* Increase the Windows baseline to Windows 2000 (Fridrich Strba)
* Suppress C4355 warnings in the VC++ build (Marc Maurer)
* Update link-grammar to 4.5.7 (Marc Maurer)