AbiWord is a Free software of Word processing which exists for various platforms (GNU/Linux, Windows, Mac OS X…) AbiWord was in the beginning a product of SourceGear Corporation, but SourceGear turned the project entirely towards a team of Développeur S volunteers.

It has several filters of import/export such as the format rtf, HTML, the format of ms Word (DOC.) and that of LaTeX (the TEX). The format of AbiWord uses XML (file .abw), the documents written with this program are a sure investment from the point of view of numerical filing.

AbiWord belongs to the office automation continuation GNOME Office and has a graft of connection to Wikipédia.

Faster and lighter than its so free counterpart him OpenOffice.org Writer, it is however less complete.

History of the versions

Version 1.0 appeared the April 19th 2002, version 2.0 the September 15th 2003, version 2.2 the December 3rd 2004 and version 2.4 the September 30th 2005. For the officially supported platforms, version 1.0 did not have the possibility of making tables, which was implemented on version 2.0 because of the strong demand.

External bond

• Official site

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