Individual Office Programs

This chapter is a collection of independent projects that can be installed based on specific needs. Together, they create a respectable office suite. While they may be lacking in user interface consistency, they excel in doing one thing and doing it well.

AbiWord-2.0.6

Introduction to AbiWord

The AbiWord package contains a word processing application. This is useful for writing reports, letters and other formatted documents.

Package information

Download (HTTP): http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/abiword/abiword-2.0.6.tar.bz2
Download (FTP):
Download size: 24.3 MB
Estimated Disk space required: 185 MB
Estimated build time: 1.64 SBU

AbiWord dependencies

Required

libglade-2.3.6 and FriBidi

Optional

popt-1.7, aspell-0.50.5, GNOME Libraries-1.4.2, gucharmap, Enchant and wv

Installation of AbiWord

Install AbiWord by running the following commands:

cd abi &&
./configure --prefix=/usr &&
make &&
make install &&
cp ../abiword-docs/man/abiword.8 /usr/share/man/man8 &&
cp -rf ../abiword-docs/help /usr/share/doc/abiword

The AbiWord package contains abiword, ttfadmin.sh and ttftool.

Description

abiword

abiword is a symlink to the main AbiWord executable.

ttfadmin.sh

ttfadmin.sh generates support files required by AbiWord for each TrueType font in a given directory.

ttftool

ttftool is an utility for processing TrueType fonts.