{"id":658,"date":"2010-05-14T08:58:17","date_gmt":"2010-05-14T12:58:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jamie.workingagenda.com\/blog\/?p=658"},"modified":"2018-10-22T12:30:44","modified_gmt":"2018-10-22T16:30:44","slug":"abiword-abicollab","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/jamie.workingagenda.com\/blog\/2010\/05\/14\/abiword-abicollab\/","title":{"rendered":"Abiword, AbiCollab"},"content":{"rendered":"<abbr class=\"unapi-id\" title=\"\"><!-- &nbsp; --><\/abbr>\n<p>Abiword slowly improves as a lightweight work processor.  In theory, Abiword works on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.abisource.com\/support\/require\/\">several operating systems<\/a>, including Windows, several flavors of Linux or Unix, MacOs, BeOs, or something called QNX.  Its developers now have a service called AbiCollab, which stores documents in the cloud, and allows collaborative editing.  It is a competitor to services like Google Docs, and has the advantage that you can edit the documents offline.   What seems unfortunate is that Abiword&#8217;s default file form is not ODF, although it can save to about 20 formats, including ODF (.odt) and Office Open XML (.docx), and read from several of them.<\/p>\n<p>Now that Oracle owns Sun, including the team that managed OpenOffice, and has started charging $90 for a plug-in to use ODF files in Microsoft Office, it would be good if projects like Abiword continue to improve, so people don&#8217;t feel so depended upon a single company.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Abiword slowly improves as a lightweight work processor. In theory, Abiword works on several operating systems, including Windows, several flavors of Linux or Unix, MacOs, BeOs, or something called QNX. Its developers now have a service called AbiCollab, which stores documents in the cloud, and allows collaborative editing. It is a competitor to services like [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[14],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/jamie.workingagenda.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/658"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/jamie.workingagenda.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/jamie.workingagenda.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jamie.workingagenda.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jamie.workingagenda.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=658"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/jamie.workingagenda.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/658\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1514,"href":"http:\/\/jamie.workingagenda.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/658\/revisions\/1514"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/jamie.workingagenda.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=658"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jamie.workingagenda.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=658"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jamie.workingagenda.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=658"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}