Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Sun, 2007-10-14 03:15.
There are two problems with Abiword 2.4.6 that will make it unusable for many Mac users.
First, because of a conflict with Rosetta (Abiword is a PPC app), the graphics in the toolbar on Intel Macs are dithered to the point of being unusable. I don't mean that they're simply unattractive; I mean that you literally cannot see what the buttons are supposed to represent.
Second, it has very poor font handling. It therefore has bizarre spacing on the screen, frequently running fonts together (You'll definitely see the problem if you type a word like Illinois).
I would vastly prefer to use Abiword over the much more bloated and slow OpenOffice and NeoOffice, but I've very regrettably found Abiword to be absolutely unusable on my Intel Mac.
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There are two problems with
There are two problems with Abiword 2.4.6 that will make it unusable for many Mac users.
First, because of a conflict with Rosetta (Abiword is a PPC app), the graphics in the toolbar on Intel Macs are dithered to the point of being unusable. I don't mean that they're simply unattractive; I mean that you literally cannot see what the buttons are supposed to represent.
Second, it has very poor font handling. It therefore has bizarre spacing on the screen, frequently running fonts together (You'll definitely see the problem if you type a word like Illinois).
I would vastly prefer to use Abiword over the much more bloated and slow OpenOffice and NeoOffice, but I've very regrettably found Abiword to be absolutely unusable on my Intel Mac.