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Tuesday, July 31, 2001

AbiWord 0.9 Released -- 7:25 pm CST, Update by A.T. Hun

AbiSource has released version 0.9 of their AbiWord word processor. Versions are available for Windows, Linux, BEOS, *BSD, and others. AbiWord is open source software. I'm trying it in Linux right now. It seems very nice. It's not as feature-laden as WordPerfect or MS Word, but since most people only use 10% of what a word processor can do, that might not necessarily be a bad thing. It looks like a very viable alternative for me. I'll have to try some "real world" tasks on it and see how it behaves.

In Red Hat 7.1 (and other versions of Linux if you get a font error on startup), you need to execute the following command as root before AbiWord will run properly:

/usr/sbin/chkfontpath -q -a /usr/share/AbiSuite/fonts

After that, restart the xfs daemon and you are all set. I imported a rich text document and it converted flawlessly. Most impressive. Thanks Linux Today.

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