KOffice 1.3 Released

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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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