Comments on: AbiWord is ready to work with you http://worldofgnome.org/abiword-is-ready-to-work-with-you/ Just another GNOME blog Fri, 24 May 2013 06:45:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Links 11/7/2012: digiKam 2.7.0, Jolla Rises | Techrights http://worldofgnome.org/abiword-is-ready-to-work-with-you/#comment-827 Links 11/7/2012: digiKam 2.7.0, Jolla Rises | Techrights Wed, 11 Jul 2012 12:47:04 +0000 http://worldofgnome.org/?p=3843#comment-827 [...] AbiWord is ready to work with you [...]

]]> By: Bill_Toulas http://worldofgnome.org/abiword-is-ready-to-work-with-you/#comment-820 Bill_Toulas Wed, 11 Jul 2012 08:15:00 +0000 http://worldofgnome.org/?p=3843#comment-820 That is very interesting!

]]> By: Danny Sepley http://worldofgnome.org/abiword-is-ready-to-work-with-you/#comment-814 Danny Sepley Wed, 11 Jul 2012 02:10:00 +0000 http://worldofgnome.org/?p=3843#comment-814 Wonderful article. I myself am a huge fan of Abiword from my time on lower-resource machines. As a (now post-high-school) student I’ve rarely had to do anything with it that involved any advanced features, though; however, when I used it to store some of my short stories, I found a strange anomaly that  happens from time to time – in between sessions (i.e. you save, close, and re-open) the typeface and size sometimes changes arbitrarily in certain paragraphs at certain points; very mysterious and completely random. That’s the only reason I don’t currently use it; I don’t want to reformat my document every time I open it, even it’s just a simple Ctrl+A and selecting a font; repetition drives me mad.

Other than that, great review. I would like to add one thing myself: Abiword is capable of creating files outside its native format BETTER than the native word processors. I tested this with a sample ODT file saved via LibreOffice and copy-pasted the stuff into Abiword; the Abiword-generated ODT was smaller! The same went for .doc and .docx. Hats off to the devs for not bragging about THIS lightweight part of the program.

]]> By: Bill_Toulas http://worldofgnome.org/abiword-is-ready-to-work-with-you/#comment-793 Bill_Toulas Tue, 10 Jul 2012 14:19:00 +0000 http://worldofgnome.org/?p=3843#comment-793 Very comprehensive article! Nicely done! 
I also liked very much the way collaborative editing is a simple case in AbiWord

]]> By: M. Juhl-Johansen Zölde-Fejér http://worldofgnome.org/abiword-is-ready-to-work-with-you/#comment-790 M. Juhl-Johansen Zölde-Fejér Tue, 10 Jul 2012 13:21:00 +0000 http://worldofgnome.org/?p=3843#comment-790 I wrote a short Abiword review a while back:
http://writtenandread.net/abiword/
- I especially think that the dialog for manipulating tables is very intuitive.
Note also that Abiword allows for collaborative editing – several users in one document – using XMPP, which is clever.

]]> By: PostBlue http://worldofgnome.org/abiword-is-ready-to-work-with-you/#comment-748 PostBlue Mon, 09 Jul 2012 14:26:00 +0000 http://worldofgnome.org/?p=3843#comment-748 Some notes :
- you can change the default saving format editing /usr/share/abiword-2.8/system.profile, and adding DefaultSaveFormat=”.odt” in the systemdefaults ;
- you can change the default template (font, align, …) by editing (or creating) .AbiSuite/templates/normal.awt and saving the changes.

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