AbiWord (open-source word processing)


Category: Office

Product's Description:
AbiWord is a free word processing program similar to Microsoft® Word. It is suitable for a wide variety of word processing tasks.
AbiWord is rapidly becoming a state of the art Word Processor, with lots of features useful for your daily work, personal needs, or for just some good old typing fun.

Product's Features:
Multi Platform.....Enjoy your favorite Word Processor on the operating system you like to use - be it Windows, Linux, QNX, FreeBSD or Solaris.
Interoperability.....AbiWord is able to read and write all industry standard document types, such as OpenOffice.org documents, Microsoft Word documents, WordPerfect documents, Rich Text Format documents, HTML web pages and many more.
Advanced Document Layout.....Give your document that professional, scientific or fun-to-read look using AbiWord's advanced document layout options. Use tables, bullets, lists, images, footnotes, endnotes and styles to enhance the way your document looks. Internationalization.....AbiWord comes in many different languages. AbiWord is available in most common and many not-so-common languages. Make sure your document contains none of those nasty spelling errors by using AbiWord's built-in spelling checker.
Mail Merge.....Special fields inserted into a template document can automatically be replaced with data coming from a variety of sources, such as Relational Databases, Comma Separated Text files or Tabbed Text files.
Extensible Plugin Architecture.....A variety of plugins can be used to extend AbiWord's functionality, ranging from Document Importers to a Thesaurus, Image Importers and a Text Summarizer.

Product's Info:
AbiWord version 2.6.5 Size: 5199 KB

System requirements:
Microsoft Windows: windows 2000/XP; (95,98,and ME are no longer supported in 2.6. Use 2.4.6 instead).

GNU/Linux, BSD, Solaris (2.6, 7,8,9,10), AIX, HP/UX (10.20, 11.0), OSF/1, Tru64:

  • GTK+ 2.2 or newer (2.2.4 recommended)
  • At least 16MB RAM (embedded systems probably won't require more than 8)
  • Any processor that supports any of these operating systems (which is effectively, any processor)
  • Optionally GNOME 2.2 (2.4 recommended)
Mac OS X: Mac OS X 10.2 or later.
QNX: Note: currently the latest version available for QNX is 2.0
  • QNX Neutrino 6.2
  • Pentium class processor or better
  • At least 16MB RAM
BeOS:
  • The BeOS port of AbiWord 2.0 and later is not actively maintained and presumed to be slightly broken, but 1.0 was known to work on the following
  • A BeOS supported machine, Intel or PowerPC based.
  • At least 32MB RAM
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