AbiWord 2.7.7 Beta

Core

* Bug 5822: Editing text under or next to an image darkens it (Martin Sevior)
* Bug 9434: Crash when editing Word document (Martin Sevior)
* Bug 12080: Disable smart quote conversions when undoing and pasting (Martin Sevior)
* Bug 12198: Crash when inserting a header (Martin Sevior)
* Bug 12202: Extra paragraphs are created when reopening files with annotations (Martin Sevior)
* Allow SVGs to be copied and pasted (Martin Sevior)
* Fix a crash when copying images (Martin Sevior)
* Retain width and height settings when generating images for positioned objects (Martin Sevior)


GUI

Cross-platform

* Bug 8307: Standardize shortcut keys for subscript, superscript, and zooming (Martin Sevior)
o Zoom in: Ctrl + =
o Zoom out: Ctrl + -
o Superscript: Ctrl + Shift + 6 (Ctrl + ^)
o Subscript: Ctrl + Shift + - (Ctrl + _)
* Bug 12187: Images aren't unselected properly (Martin Sevior)
* Speed up the text renderer used on Linux and Mac (Robert Wilhelm)

Windows

* Bug 11800: Bullets and numbering dialog can't be reopened (Marc Maurer)
* Bug 12169: Incorrect file extension used when saving an image (sum1)
* Bug 12189: Don't convert JPEGs to PNGs internally (Marc Maurer)
* Bug 12196: JPEGs are not displayed (Marc Maurer)
* Make the icons in the split cells and merge cells dialogs larger for easier use (Marc Maurer)


Import/Export

HTML

* Bug 12152: Export SVGs to HTML (Marc Maurer)
* Fix some crashes related to file names in the exporter (Marc Maurer)

Office Open XML (docx)

* Bug 12180: Exported documents that contain JPEGs cannot be opened by Word (Firat Kiyak)
* Handle white space between tags in the importer (Firat Kiyak)
* Import and export page size and page orientation (Firat Kiyak)
* Support mail merge fields in the importer and exporter (Firat Kiyak)

RTF

* Bug 12192: Add support for SVGs to the importer and exporter (Martin Sevior)


Installer

* Bug 12182: Package the math plug-in on Windows (Marc Maurer)
* Bug 12214: Readme file is no longer shown after installation (Ryan Pavlik)
* Standardize plug-in names in the installer (Ryan Pavlik)


Internationalization

* Update the Basque (eu-ES) translation (Mikel Pascual)
* Update the Slovak (sk-SK) translation (Jaroslav Rynik)
* Update the Slovenian (sl-SI) translation (Martin Srebotnjak)


Plug-ins

Collaboration

* Bug 12110: Add account dialog is not refreshed properly when changing account type (Marc Oude Kotte)
* Fix the X button in the collaboration accounts dialog (Marc Oude Kotte)


Development

Cross-platform

* Bug 12211: Add comments to explain unreached layout code (Martin Sevior)
* Bug 12216: Mismatched braces when using certain conditionals in the Word importer (Ryan Pavlik, Hubert Figuiere)
* Add support for implementing colors as patterns with the Cairo back-end (Hubert Figuiere)
* Fix some allocation mismatches in the WordPerfect and human-readable text plug-ins (Hubert Figuiere)
* Make sure the normal templates are always installed to prevent invalid margin settings (Marc Maurer)
* Make the Cairo rendering code more modular for non-GTK+ platforms (Hubert Figuiere)
* Release and maintain 2.7.7 (Marc Maurer)
* Remove obsolete developer documents from the source tree (Hubert Figuiere)

Windows

* Add the math plug-in to the VC++ build (Marc Maurer)
* Remove a duplicate line from the resource file for the join dialog in the collaboration plug-in (Marc Oude Kotte)