abiword

Details

Name: abiword	Version: 2.5.2-2.21999.3mdv2008.0 (i586)
Size: 11 MiB	Build date: Wed Oct 03 16:22:49 CEST 2007
Category: Office	License: GPL
Homepage: http://www.abisource.com/
Summary: Lean and fast full-featured word processor

Description

AbiWord is a cross-platform, Open Source Word Processor developed by the people at AbiSource, Inc. and by developers from around the world.

It is a lean and fast full-featured word processor. It works on Most Unix systems, Microsoft Windows and Mac OS X. Features include:

• Basic character formatting (bold, underline, italics, etc.)
• Paragraph alignment
• Spell-check
• Import of MS Word and RTF documents
• Export to RTF, Text, HTML, and LaTeX formats
• Interactive rulers and tabs
• Styles
• Unlimited undo/redo
• Multiple column control
• Widow/orphan control
• Find/Replace
• Images
• Tables

More features are available through the use of plugins, which are packaged separately. Also more import and export filters are available by installing the abiword-plugin-impexp package. Help files are available in a few languages which rae available as for example abiword-doc-de.

Abiword with the GNOME front-end is part of the GNOME Office Suite. See http://www.gnomeoffice.org for details.

Run "urpmi abiword", or click here to download the package itself.