application/x-abiword
AbiWord

AbiWord 2.2 for MacOS X

Warning: This software is a pre-release software, it may not work as expected.

This is the first release of AbiWord for MacOS X, a free cross-platform word processor. For more information, see http://www.abisource.com/tour/ . It is based on the development version of AbiWord and should have the same features. However, since this is a new port, it may not be in par with the other platforms, most likely Linux and Windows ports.

System requirements:

MacOS X 10.2 There won't be any version that will run on MacOS prior version 10.2, so please don't ask.

Bugs:

There are probably a lot of bug. Please report any bug in our bug report system:

http://bugzilla.abisource.com/

It can be helpful to provide crashlogs if it is a crash. The component in bugzilla is "Front End - Cocoa".

Known issues for for MacOS X:

various drawing glitches

localization does not work

plug-ins do not work. This means that lot of file format like WordPerfect and OpenOffice are not yet supported. This also means that MS-Word import is not as good as it can be.

insertion caret blinking is too slow

various crashes may occur

scroll-wheel does not work, as well as right button (use control-click for popups)

setting table and text boxes properties may not work

Hubert Figuiere <hfiguiere@teaser.fr>

June 7th 2004

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