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Overview

Abiword is a lightweight standalone word processor. Unfortunately, it's missing some key features, including tables and footnotes.In short, it's great when you want to quickly compose a letter, but a little disappointing if you were planning to write your next academic paper with it.

One major strength of Abiword is the ability to deal with a wide range of file formats, including WordPerfect (wpd).

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Platforms

  • FreeBSD
  • Linux
  • Mac OS X
  • Microsoft Windows (all versions)
  • QNX
  • Solaris

File Formats (open and save)

  • Microsoft Word 6.0/95/97/2000/XP (doc)
  • OpenOffice.org / StarWriter Text (sdw, sxw)
  • Plain Text (txt)
  • Rich Text Format (rtf)
  • Web Page (html)

Languages

English (Australia, Great Britain, Ireland, US) Bulgarian Catalan Czech Danish German (Switzerland, Germany) Greek Spanish Finnish Basque Chinese (Hong Kong, China, Taiwan) Hungarian Japanese Italian Welsh French Irish Galician Indonesian Lithuanian Norwegian (Bokmål, Nynorsk) Dutch Polish Portuguese (Brazil, Portugal) Russian Lojban Ukranian Slovak Slovenian Swedish Turkish Amharic

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