AbiWord

Multi Platform

Enjoy your favorite Word Processor on the operating system you like to use - be it Windows,
Linux, QNX, FreeBSD or Solaris.

AbiWord has been designed to integrate perfectly with the operating system it runs on. It
will take advantage of the functionality provided by the system, such as image loading or printing
capabilities.

Interoperability

What use is a Word Processor when you can't share your documents with your friends? AbiWord is able to read
and write all industry standard document types, such as OpenOffice.org documents, Microsoft Word documents,
WordPerfect documents, Rich Text Format documents, HTML web pages and many more.

Advanced Document Layout

Give your document that professional, scientific or fun-to-read look using AbiWord's advanced
document layout options. Use tables, bullets, lists, images, footnotes, endnotes and styles to enhance the
way your document looks.

Internationalization

Since not everyone in the world speaks the same language, AbiWord comes in many different languages.
AbiWord is available in most common and many not-so-common languages.

Make sure your document contains none of those nasty spelling errors by using AbiWord's built-in
spelling checker. Dictionaries exist for over 30 languages.

AbiWord supports right-to-left, left-to-right, and mixed-mode text. This means that in addition to supporting European languages, AbiWord supports languages like Hebrew and Arabic as well.

Mail Merge

Do you also hate writing tens of thousands form letters by hand? With AbiWord's Mail Merge capabilities,
you can let AbiWord automate that job for you. Special fields inserted into a template document can automatically be
replaced with data coming from a variety of sources, such as Relational Databases, Comma Separated Text files
or Tabbed Text files.

To facilitate the use of AbiWord in a server environment, a powerful command line interface to
AbiWord is available. This allows you to generate form letters, print documents or convert documents
to any file format AbiWord supports - all from the command line!

Extensible Plugin Architecture

The main AbiWord program is very small and requires very little resources to run. This allows
AbiWord to be used on systems that are not considered "State of the Art" anymore, which comes all too quickly in the IT world.

Our plugin system was designed to give AbiWord all the functionality you might expect from a modern
Word Processor. A variety of plugins can be used to extend AbiWord's functionality, ranging from Document
Importers to a Thesaurus, Image Importers and a Text Summarizer.