[odf-discuss] One Laptop Per Child Project

[Martin Ellis]

On Thursday 31 August 2006 18:05, marbux wrote:
> On 8/31/06, M. Fioretti <mfioretti at mclink.it> wrote:
> > BTW, Abiword is to some extent ODT compatible. Is it included? If yes,
> > it should be enough to read (and write) at least ODF texts, no?
>
> According to Daniel's review of an earlier version of Abiword, it's
> read-only. <http://opendocumentfellowship.org/applications/abiword>.

The 2.4.5 changelog refers to export capability, and I've just built the 
version from Debian and it sorta works on a few noddy documents.

It doesn't do frames (crash), paragraph borders (ignored) or Chinese text
(renders circles!)  but it can indeed load and save simple, English text.

Martin