AbiWord 2.7.8 Beta

Core

* Bug 10692: Hang when inserting a table over a footnote (Martin Sevior)
* Enable table line drags for embedded versions of AbiWord (Martin Sevior)
* Fix some editing issues with annotations (Martin Sevior)
* Improve the handling of documents that contain page breaks in columns (Martin Sevior)


GUI

Cross-platform

* Bug 2466: Prompt before taking over an existing bookmark's name (sum1)
* (Part of) Bug 11953: Don't list non-scalable fonts in the Linux and Mac UIs (Hubert Figuiere)
* Bug 12256: The "Help Introduction" menu item has an incorrect status bar description (sum1)
* Make some frequently-used drawing code slightly faster (Robert Wilhelm)
* Make text rendering on Linux and Mac faster (Robert Wilhelm)

Windows

* Bug 2468: Disable the OK button in the bookmark dialog when the bookmark name is empty (sum1)
* Bug 12188: Implement an "enable overwrite mode" option on Windows (sum1)


Import/Export

AbiWord

* Fix some potential issues that could lead to invalid XML in the abw exporter (sum1)

Office Open XML (docx)

* Bug 12180: OpenOffice.org can't read the docx files exported by AbiWord (Firat Kiyak)
* Add support for borderless table cells to the importer (Firat Kiyak)
* Add support for table styles to the importer (Firat Kiyak)
* Fix the exporting of page columns (Firat Kiyak)
* Fix the exporter to handle nested tables (Firat Kiyak)
* Handle overlapping bookmarks in the exporter better (Firat Kiyak)
* Import and export page margins (Firat Kiyak)
* Import page breaks (Firat Kiyak)
* Import text highlighting from docx files (Firat Kiyak)
* Improve support for bookmarks inside of tables (Firat Kiyak)
* Improve support for merged table cells in the importer (Firat Kiyak)
* Make cells inherit table backgrounds in the importer (Firat Kiyak)

OpenDocument (odt)

* Bug 11859: Span background colors are not always exported (sum1)
* Bug 12219: Missing text and image during import (Martin Sevior)
* Bug 12240: Crash when importing a document that contains equations (sum1)
* (Part of) Bug 12661: AbiWord doesn't export background images correctly (sum1)
* (Part of) Bug 12661: Prevent invalid color values in the exporter (sum1)
* (Part of) Bug 12661: Top-level text boxes are ignored during import (sum1)

RTF

* Bug 12239: Text inside of table cells is not imported with the correct alignment (Martin Sevior)


Installer

* Bug 12246: Update the copyright statements in the readme documents (sum1)
* Bug 12257: Add a Slovak dictionary option to the Windows installer (sum1)
* Remove the math plug-in from the typical installation set (Ryan Pavlik)


Internationalization

* Update the Romanian (ro-RO) translation (Lucian Constantin)
* Update the Russian (ru-RU) translation (Urmas)
* Update the Slovak (sk-SK) translation (Jaroslav Rynik)
* Update the Wolof (Senegal) (wo-SN) translation (Dominique Rochefort)


Plug-ins

Collaboration

* Bug 12248: Potential crash when importing data items while collaborating (sum1)
* Fix corrupted data packets with the Sugar and TCP back-ends (Marc Maurer)


Development

Cross-platform

* Make sure all templates are added to the source distribution (Marc Maurer)
* Package Romanian templates and profiles in the source distribution (Marc Maurer)
* Release and maintain 2.7.8 (Marc Maurer)

Windows

* Bug 12215: Fix some mismatched deallocations in Windows code (Ryan Pavlik)
* Add the OpenWriter, Paint, and S5 plug-ins to the VC++ build (Marc Maurer)