AbiWord 2.7.10 Beta

Overview:
AbiWord is a free open source word processing program similar to Microsoft® Word licensed under the GNU General Public License. The name AbiWord (pronounced Abby Word) is derived from the root of the Spanish word abierto, meaning open. It is supported on Linux, Mac OS X (PowerPC), Microsoft Windows, ReactOS, BeOS, AmigaOS 4.0 (through its Cygnix X11 engine), and other operating systems. AbiWord was originally started by SourceGear Corporation as the first component of AbiSuite, as part of a plan to create a full Office Suite that would be free software. However, SourceGear gradually moved on to other business interests, and now the AbiWord project is run by a team of volunteer developers. AbiWord is part of GNOME Office, a collection of office applications with some degree of integration.
It is suitable for a wide variety of word processing tasks. AbiWord allows you to collaborate with multiple people on one document at the same time. It is tightly integrated with the AbiCollab.net web service, which lets you store documents online, allows easy document sharing with your friends, and performs format conversions on the fly.

Advantages of AbiWord 2.7.10 Beta:

•   Multi Platform: Take pleasure in your preferred Word Processor on the working system you like to use – be it Windows, Linux, QNX, FreeBSD or Solaris.
•   Interoperability: AbiWord is capable to understand and engrave all business typical text categories, such as OpenOffice.org documents, Microsoft Word documents, WordPerfect documents, Rich Text Format documents, HTML web pages and numerous additional formats.
•   Advanced Document Layout: It provides your text that specialized, technical or fun-to-read appearance by using AbiWord’s superior text layout selection. Make use of tables, bullets, lists, similes, footnote, endnotes and styles to improve the method your text appearance.
•   Internationalization: AbiWord is obtainable in numerous unusual languages. AbiWord is obtainable in most ordinary and lots of not-so-common languages. Dictionaries exist for greater than 30 languages.

What’s new in AbiWord 2.7.10 Beta?
•   Cross-platform
•   Bug 12321: Annotation hover box too large
•   Allow empty titles, authors or descriptions in annotations
•   Bug 12322: Jump to annotation is broken.
•   Bug 12324: Scrolling from page to page does not work using multipage
Bug 12150: Implement the annotations preview dialog
•   Import/Export
•   Office Open XML (docx)
•   Extended document validity checking.
•   Internationalization
•   Add a Basque translation to the Windows installer
•   Plug-ins
•   Collaboration
•   Don’t expand all items in the Open Shared Documents dialog when reopening
•   Re-enable the code that checks for AbiCollab protocol incompatibilities.
•   Bug 12317: Can’t edit collaboratively added equation. Warning: this bumps the AbiCollab protocol version, making it incompatible with previous 2.7.x releases.
•   Bug 12294: Don’t overwrite read only access control.
•   Bug 12308: Fix memory leak in Open Shared Documents dialogs.
•   Fix memory leak in Share dialog on Windows
•   Bug 12323: Save As dialog gives an error
•   Don’t silently ignore the request to open an already opened shared document. Instead, raise the frame which has the document already in it
•   Bug 12264: Crash when disconnecting TCP client account
•   Fix hang on exit on Windows when having 1 TCP server account.
•   Bug 12326: Memory error when deleting TCP client account
Pros & Cons:

Pros:
•   Reads and writes OpenOffice and Word documents
•   Very light on resources and simple to use
Cons:
•   Not many advanced editing features
•   Requires add-ons to carry out spell-checks