> As for feature freeze, I'm not so sure. Have people sat down and worked through > user scenarios? Can AbiWord write a book?
Actually, yes, I know of people doing this. > Work as a low cost word replacement? About 500,000 to 1 million people already do this > * .svg import (which does nothing but mess up documents for me) Going to be disabled before the release. The ImageMagick plugin handles SVGs so this isn't a huge problem. > * Smart quotes on Linux (the checkbox has no useful effect) Pushed to 1.2 already by me. Smart quotes are disabled by default now, and they really do work on linux but are buggy with regard to undo operations (1822) and spell-checking. > * Autotext Good enough for what it does. Does it not insert text for you? If you'd like it to do more, file a bug in bugzilla with a RFE tag. > * Styles (which are still a bit unpredictable) 100% predictable here. There's only like 1 style-related bug in bugzilla besides making a "better" way to define a style from a selection. The bug has to do with applying a style to a list. If you find bugs related to styles, file them in bugzilla, just don't say that they're unpredictable on the mailinglist. > * Bookmarks (which are, as far as I can tell, are invisible after insertion) Bookmarks are just tags to a specific place in a document (placeholders). You then make a hyperlink that goes to a bookmark. In HTML, this'd look like: <a name="bookmark1" /> text.... <a href="#bookmark1">Take me to bookmark 1 please!</a> > * Execute script (which just says ATTN: for me) Install perl or some other scripting language and this dialog will go away. Write a scripting plugin and this dialog goes away. No scripting engine is installed. > Do import/export filters work correctly for character sets across platforms? > Is an AbiWord document really portable? Because of issues like smart quotes, I >think > the answer is currently "not quite". Again, smart quotes are disabled by default. In my experience, AbiWord documents are 100% portable across platforms unless you build against the unsupported libxml2 parser. If you find evidence to the contrary, file bugs in bugzilla. The import and export filters do in fact work correctly for character sets across platforms. The TXT and RTF filter were worked on extensively by Andrew Dunbar. All of the XML filters were worked on by Vlad Harchev and others to make sure that they worked in CJK and ISO-8859-2 locales. If you find evidence to the contrary, file bugs in bugzilla. > Is image insertion really ready? The lack of .gif and .eps import are hard to take. > The inability to resize an image, or flow text around it, is a real downside. Image insertion is ready. GIF and EPS can be inserted via an ImageMagick plugin that we plan on distributing with 1.0. Flowing text around images is post 1.0 (1.2 in fact) and resizing images is a work *almost* completed by myself that will make it into 1.0 under my "polish existing work" clause. Dom
