AbiWord 是一款不可多得的开源文字处理小工具，无论是在 Windows 还是在 Linux 下表现都很不错。AbiWord 2.5.0 已经发布了，主要新特性如下：

- A new Pango based renderer for Unix platforms, improving support for languages such as Thai and Arabic
- Cross platform libgsf integration, allowing the user to open files on remote shares (the last part holds for the Unix platform for now)
- Cross platform Glib integration, meaning less custom AbiWord specific code to maintain
- Support for the Bonobo component framework has been deprecated (Unix platforms)
- Improved the build system to be more standards conformant (for example, "make dist" and "make distcheck" now work)
- Experimental AbiWord GTK+ widget, with accompanying Python bindings
- Various toolbar improvements, most notably the improvements to make them work better on small screens (Unix platform)
- A massive amount of work on all of our popular import and export filters
- A new experimental collaboration plugin (only available on Unix for now)
- A new GNOME Office integration plugin, replacing the old GNOME Office Charting plugin (Unix platforms)
- Improved command line handling, allowing input from standard input, and output to be directed to standard output (examples here).
- Improved printing from the command line, deprecating our old custom postscript driver
- Lots of updates to our translations
- Various Drag & Drop and Clipboard handling improvements
- Improved modularisations for resource constrained devices, such as optional printing and spelling support
- Improved support for running AbiWord in non-UI mode (sometimes also referred to as "server" mode, as offered by the AbiCommand plugin); most notably the requirement for a (fake) X server has been removed.

AbiWord 2.5.0 安装版官方下载：

http://www.abisource.com/download/development.phtml