KOffice 1.3 Released
"On January 27th, the KDE Project released KOffice 1.3 for Linux and Unix
operating systems. KOffice is a free set of office applications that
integrate with the award winning KDE desktop. KOffice is a light-weight yet
feature rich office solution and provides a variety of filters to
interoperate with other popular office suites such as OpenOffice.org and
Microsoft Office."
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On January 27th, the KDE Project released KOffice 1.3 for Linux and Unix
operating systems. KOffice is a free set of office applications that
integrate with the award winning KDE desktop. KOffice is a light-weight yet
feature rich office solution and provides a variety of filters to
interoperate with other popular office suites such as OpenOffice.org and
Microsoft Office.
KOffice 1.3 consists of the following applications:
* KWord - A frame-based word processor
* KSpread - An advanced spreadsheet application
* KPresenter - A full-featured presentation program
* Kivio - A Visio-style flowcharting application
* Karbon14 - A vector drawing application
* Kugar - A tool for generating business quality reports
* KChart - An integrated graph and chart drawing tool
* KFormula - A powerful formula editor
Big improvements have been made in KOffice 1.3 with respect to
interoperability with other office file formats. It is now for example
possible to import as well as export OpenOffice.org documents. Also new is
the ability to import PDF files into KWord and make changes to the document.
Support for Microsoft document- formats has improved as well.
"Many people have been asking for improved support for the Microsoft
document-formats and we have made significant improvements in that area for
this release," says David Faure, a KOffice developer for Klarälvdalens
Datakonsult AB. "Especially the support for Microsoft Word 95 and Microsoft
Word 97 documents has become much better."
The principal improvements over KOffice 1.2 are:
KWord (Word Processor).
- - support for automatic hyphenation;
- - a new MS Word import filter;
- - support for pictures, tables and footnotes in the RTF export filter (which
has been re-written);
- - support for pictures and footnotes in the LaTeX export filter;
- - a new MS Write export filter and a re-written MS Write import filter;
support for bookmarks;
- - text sorting;
- - new character attributes, such as word-by-word underlining and relative font
sizes; and
- - improved spell checking (selection only; ignore words; etc.).
KPresenter (Presentation Tool).
- - support for automatic hyphenation;
- - an improved slide transition dialog, featuring a preview of the slide
effect;
- - drawing images with alpha channels;
- - customizable printing of slide notes; and
- - improved HTML export as well as usability enhancements to the HTML export
wizard.
KSpread (Spreadsheet).
- - over 100 new formulas (date/time, math, statistical, financial and more);
- - an OpenCalc import and export filter;
- - a new LaTeX export filter;
- - enhancements to the CSV import and export options;
- - new date and time formats;
- - a subtotal dialog and formula; and
- - default cell styles.
Kugar / Kugar Designer (Business Reporting).
- - redesigned to better integrate into the KOffice environment;
- - enhanced handling of items in the designer (cut / copy / paste; undo / redo;
manual z-ordering; etc.);
- - support for printing reports from the command line / scripts; and
- - a DCOP interface.
For more information and download instructions go to
http://www.koffice.org/releases/1.3-release.php
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