Вышла новая версия AbiWord - бесплатной и в тоже время негромоздкой альтернативы популярного Word из семейства Microsoft Office. Программа позволяет набирать и форматировать тексты, рисовать таблицы, вставлять изображения, распечатывать документы...

AbiWord 2.6 is a multi-platform word processor that combines state-of-the-art usability, powerful features, and excellent interoperability. Furthermore, it features a powerful framework for supporting custom extensions. AbiWord v2.6.6 is the latest stable release, which compared to v2.6.5 contains a small number of important bugfixes.

This release includes the following changes (and more!):

* Fix a bug that caused scrolling in the opposite direction when scrolling quickly on Unix platforms.
* Fix a bug which caused the Office Open XML exporter to conflict with other exporters.
* Various tweaks to the OpenDocument importer.

AbiWord Portable is a free word processing program similar to Microsoft Word. It is suitable for a variety of word processing activities and supports a number of document types including Microsoft Word, Word Perfect, Open Document (OpenOffice.org), Office Open XML (MS Word 2007), RTF, HTML, Palm and more. It includes both grammar and spelling checkers as well as an array of other handy features including mail merge capabilities. It also has a plugin system allowing you to add features with available add-on plugins.