AbiWord 2.4.2

AbiWord v2.4.2 ChangeLog

Jean Brefort
- Enable the pasting of charts from Gnumeric 1.6
- Fix rendering position, low resolution and editing issues of embedded charts
- Bugfixes: 9745

Daniel d'Andrada Tenório de Carvalho (INdT)
- A *massive* number of updates to the OpenDocument importer!
- An OpenDocument exporter!
- Bugfixes: 9768, 9768

Rex Dieter
- Fix bug 171921 from bugzilla.redhat.com

Hubert Figuiere
- Fix a long standing memory leak in the encoding manager (Unix)
- Various automated testing routines
- Fix various memory leaks (one of several 100KB) in the image handling code from the RTF importer (bug 9643)
- Fix memory leaks in the OpenWriter importer/exporter and other plugins
- Make the automated testing routines a bit more reliable
- Kill a lot of compilation warnings
- Update the OpenDocument plugin build infrastucture (Mac OSX)
- Bugfixes: 9439

Renato Filho
- Fix a sponteneous quit on the Nokia 770
- Initialize osso 'more properly' on the Nokia 770
- Fix desktop and service files on the Nokia 770
- Some fixes/cleanups to the file chooser dialog on the Nokia 770
- Change the toolbar layout for Nokia 770
- Bugfixes: 9700, 9701

Frank Franklin
- Update Symbol font-remap table and fix Insert Symbol dialog (Mac OSX)
- Update the math plugin data files (Mac OSX)
- Substitute different unicode values for dot, tilde and OverBar in the math plugin
- Installation README: add note on text rendering (bug 9654, Mac OSX)
- Math plugin: load dictionary-combining.xml also, don't half the thickness when filling rectangles and make the default line thickness 0.5pt
- Try to make fillRect more accurate (Mac OSX)
- Don't add glyph advance to the width for the cmex10 font in glyphBox() (Mac OSX)
- Math plugin: prevent crash when equation data is mysteriously missing
- Add a check grammar preference to options dialog (Mac OSX)
- Bugfixes: 9658

Tomas Frydrych
- Avoid appending nothing to UT_String
- Fix various bidi / directionality problems with RTL footnotes (bug 9793)
- Fix word wrapping in RTL text where it added line brakes in the middle of words (bug 9792)
- Bugfixes: 9618, 9622

Mark Gilbert
- Bugfixes: 9473 and/or 8255, 9227

Dom Lachowicz
- Add a new method called 'convert' which takes a suffix as input to the AbiCommand plugin
- Use glib for readline argument parsing aka UNIX shell-style parsing in the AbiCommand plugin. It'll properly handle stuff with spaces in its name now.
- The 'server' command in the AbiCommand plugin now takes an argument; remove lots of unused vars, header files, etc. general-purpose cleanup.
- Push some logic about when to free streams down from AbiWord into WvWare
- Remove confusing dead code from the GdkPixbuf loader (Unix)
- Free the document if we can't import the file
- Fix various libxml2 related memory leaks
- Faster and leak-free image detection method (Unix)
- Remove bits of unused code
- Fix a crash on bogus-looking token in the MS Word importer
- Initialize the type of fields in the MS Word importer
- Stop some illegal writes in the MS Word importer related to fields
- Remedy load-time regressions caused by UUIDs intended for the AbiCollab project, which is a 2.6+ project
- (Finally) get image ownership right (i hope) in the MS Word importer
- Free the memory when we can't decode the pixbuf to a PNG (Unix)
- Bugfixes: 9667

Roland Kay
- Update build instructions for MSVC71
- Bugfixes: 9638

Marc Maurer
- Build fix for 64-bit architectures
- Make the OpenDocument plugin depend on a slightly lower libgsf version
- GCC 4.1 build fix
- Update the OpenDocument plugin build infrastucture (Windows)
- Recover properly after a 'system suspend' on the Nokia 770
- Several plugin build system updates
- Fix the low image quality when printing (bug 6671, Unix)

Luca Padovani
- Update the math plugin to sync it with gtkmathview 0.7.6. Fixes include: hbar works correctly now, as well as several other glyphs (MSAM and MSBM fonts are now supported).

Martin Sevior
- Don't crash if xft can't find a font (Unix)
- Fix the placement of the footnote text in the document body after an RTF export (bug 8123)
- Various fixes for loading the RTF-1.5 specification file
- Fix underlining of first list-label in the RTF/MS Word importer
- Fix the AbiCommand plugin "save" command and surpress the HTML dialog when "save as HTML" is called from AbiCommand
- Bugfixes: 9631

Federico Schwindt
- OpenBSD build fix (bug 9605)

Robert Staudinger
- Bugfixes: 9675

Fridrich Strba
- Revert a previous patch for table importing of Word Perfect documents; optimal results with libwpd 0.8.4
- Import tabstops correctly in the Word Perfect importer

sum1
- Make the bookmark toolbar button actually respond to document changes (semi-fix for bug 7337) (Windows)
- Update the OpenDocument plugin build infrastucture (Windows)
- Prevent dataloss when exporting a document with an equation in it to .txt (i.e. the exporter stopped when it hit PTO_Math).
- Prevent a crash that occurs when dragging the textbox in attachment 3553 (from bug 9747) without a suitable plugin loaded (note: this issue is different from the one reported in the bug).
- Tweak the menu to show that the Edit equation and Save embedded object both raise dialogs (Windows)
- Fix Windows Tools Uninstaller Does Not Remove Grammar Checker Dictionaries (bug 9576)
- Bugfixes: 9573, 9574, 9575

Robert Wilhelm
- Unref the pixbuf loader in the image importer, fixes memory leak (Unix)
- 5% speedup for the RTF 1.5 spec by avoiding lots of setlocale calls
- Unload all loaded plugins, removes some of the memory leaks shown at shutdown (Unix)
- Plug a memory leak in the DocBook plugin
- Plug a memory leak in the menu handling code (Unix)
- Plug a memory leak in the image handling code (Unix)