AbiWord
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AbiWord is a free word processing program similar to Microsoft® Word. It is suitable for a wide variety of word processing tasks.
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source
Application type
Platforms
- Linux
- BSD
- Flathub
- PortableApps.com
- Haiku
- GTK
- Flatpak
- AmigaOS
Features
Properties
- Lightweight
- Distraction-free
Features
- Portable
- Multiple languages
- Spell Checking
- Works Offline
- WYSIWYG Support
- Ad-free
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- POX updated AbiWord
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POX added AbiWord as alternative to Letters Word Processor
POX added AbiWord as alternative to WebkitWord
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What is AbiWord?
AbiWord is a free software word processor. The name "AbiWord" (pronounced "Abby Word") is derived from the root of the Spanish word "abierto", meaning "open". It runs on Linux, Mac OS X (PowerPC), ReactOS, BeOS (unsupported), AmigaOS 4.0 (through its Cygnix X11 engine), and other operating systems. Multilingual Portable version (15MB installed) from http://portableapps.com/apps/office/abiword_portable .
AbiWord information
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AbiSource Licensing
Open Source (GPL-2.0) and Free product.Written in
Alternatives
66 alternatives listedSupported Languages
- English
Comments and Reviews
I wanna like it. It works good, starts fast and has a fair amount of features but just about the time I start to trust it everything I have on the screen disappears even though it's still there and I have to shut it down, wait a few minutes and start it back up. This is the only app that does it so it's not the computer. Probably not gonna fix it, it's been doing it for a few years.
AbiWord is no longer developed for Windows since years. You can still get the last version from websites like Heise, Chip etc.
For GNU/Linux, it is available via Flathub, and the program works quite all right. It can amazingly open and display documents in the proprietary TextMaker .tmdx format.
Unfortunately, I ran into problems every now and then in the past, and nowadays I use AbiWord only in exceptional cases, not for everyday writing.
It does exactly what most users need from their word processor. It is affordable. It is not coded like a swamp.
Not so good. It's buggy. I wanted to give it a try after trying the awesome Gnumeric & I'm not impressed
Abiword for Windows has not been updated since Oct-2010, due to lack of Windows developers.
Abiword for LINUX is well maintained
I tried to make a large document with this. Very unreliable. Some images never stay in the same place and aspect ratio after saving and opening, and it crashes so often (without autosave!) that in the end I had to open the file with LibreOffice (which fortunately has .abw support) just to be able to continue working.
Can pull some gnome dependencies (printing is based on libgnomeprint, for example.) Compile yourself to avoid them