ABW
AbiWord Document
ABW is the native document format of AbiWord, an open-source word processor developed by AbiSource. The format stores documents as gzip-compressed XML (or plain XML in older versions) and supports text formatting, tables, and embedded images. AbiWord was popular on low-resource Linux systems and older Windows PCs; while the application is rarely updated today, ABW files still surface in academic and archival contexts.
| File extensions | .abw |
| MIME type | application/x-abiword |
| Developer | AbiSource |
| First released | 1998 |
| Category | Documents |
| Open standard | Yes |
What opens ABW files
- AbiWord
- LibreOffice Writer (via import)
- OpenOffice.org
Browse File Formats
Reference details for 53 file formats — extensions, MIME types, what opens each one, and how they convert.
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