AbiWord is a free word processing
program similar to Microsoft® Word. It is suitable for a wide variety of
word processing tasks.
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. Dictionaries exist for over 30 languages.
What's new:
* Changes:
- Continued work to make the GTK+3 port ready for Abiword 3.0
- Updated translations for 60+ languages
- Tens of bug fixes. Tables spanning multiple pages are again usable. Also, the bug that caused numbers at the beginning of paragraphs to disappear when reading an rtf file has been fixed.
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. Dictionaries exist for over 30 languages.
What's new:
* Changes:
- Continued work to make the GTK+3 port ready for Abiword 3.0
- Updated translations for 60+ languages
- Tens of bug fixes. Tables spanning multiple pages are again usable. Also, the bug that caused numbers at the beginning of paragraphs to disappear when reading an rtf file has been fixed.