A free and lightweight word processor

AbiWord is part of a larger project known as AbiSource, which was started by the SourceGear Corporation. The goal of the project was the development of a cross-platform, Open Source office suite beginning with AbiWord, the project's word processor.

Features

 AbiWord is a word processor with a lot of features:

  • A familiar interface
  • Outstanding file import and export, with support for MS Word, WordPerfect, OpenOffice, OpenDocument and more
  • Gnumeric spreadsheets can be embedded into AbiWord documents
  • Unlimited undo and redo capacity
  • Solid (X)HTML export, with CSS styles support
  • Images
  • Spelling support, with optional underlining. Supported spelling systems: ispell, aspell and myspell.
  • Bullets and Lists
  • Styles
  • Table of Contents generation and customization through the StylistComplete, intuitive revisions-tracking support
  • Nested tables support, nearly unmatched in the field
  • Mail merge
  • Bidirectional text support
  • Command-line and server use modes for document processing capabilities
  • HTML online help files are included (english, french, polish)

Requires Amicygnix

Developer
AbiSource development team, OS4 port by Edgar Schwan
Publisher
Edgar Schwan
Version
2.8.6r4
License