This was despite the fact that I was running KWord in Ubuntu with GNOME. It's probably the fastest-loading and maybe the most responsive word processor in the roundup. If you seldom create new documents, yet still need more than the barebones feature set of a text editor, AbiWord is a good option. Links embedded within pictures and picture-to-text alignment did not survive the transition from the AbiWord. It does so even though it can open, edit, and save a plethora of other document formats, including the industry standard MS Word. zip).Īnother mark against AbiWord is that it uses its own. It saw every period as the end of a sentence, and that's problematic for a technology writer (e.g. I began writing this article in AbiWord, but was forced to switch back to OO.o due to severe slowdown caused by Abi's overzealous grammar checker.
Fortunately, this can be easily changed from a drop-down box in the standard toolbar. While this improves on-screen readability, it tends to distort the perceived font size. This feature actually saved my work multiple times, but unfortunately, it was AbiWord's Insert/Symbol function that caused all of the crashes.Īnother feature that left me with mixed feelings was the default view being Page Width. Abi does have a rock solid backup system which creates a file, in the event of an unexpected halt or interruption. AbiWord is one of the oldest Linux word processors still being actively developed and has the cleanest interface in this category.
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