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AbiWord
Alternative To: Microsoft Word
Description
AbiWord is a full-featured, efficient word processing application. It is suitable for a wide variety of word processing tasks, and is extensible with a variety of plugins.

This package includes many of the available import/export plugins allowing AbiWord to interact with ODT, WordPerfect, and other formats. It also includes tools plugins, offering live collaboration with AbiWord users on Linux and Windows (using TCP or Jabber/XMPP), web translation and dictionary support, and more.

Additional plugins that require significant amounts of extra software to function are in the various abiword-plugin-* packages.
Home Page: http://www.abisource.com/
Interface: Graphical (Gtk)
Plug-ins: AbiWord
Associated Programs
abiword-doc documentation for AbiWord
abiword-help online help for AbiWord
abiword-plugin-grammar grammar checking plugin for AbiWord
abiword-plugin-mathview equation editor plugin for AbiWord
AbiWord Plug-ins plugins for AbiWord
aspell-en English dictionary for GNU Aspell
poppler-utils PDF utilities (based on Poppler)
ttf-liberation transitional dummy package
Available deb Repositories (how-to add a respository)
Debian 32-bit 64-bit
stable 2.8.2-2.1 2.8.2-2.1
testing 2.9.2+svn20120603-7 2.9.2+svn20120603-7
sid 2.9.2+svn20120603-8 2.9.2+svn20120603-8

Ubuntu 32-bit 64-bit
hardy 2.4.6-3ubuntu3 2.4.6-3ubuntu3
lucid 2.8.2-2ubuntu1 2.8.2-2ubuntu1
oneiric 2.8.6-0.3ubuntu2 2.8.6-0.3ubuntu2
precise 2.9.2+svn20120213-1 2.9.2+svn20120213-1

InstallInstall Now (what is this?)
Available rpm Repositories
OpenSUSE 32-bit 64-bit
10.1 2.4.2-21 2.4.2-21
11.0 2.6.2-26.1 2.6.2-26.1

Rating: Excellent (1 vote)


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