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Subject:    [kde-promo] Review: KOffice 1.3 press release
From:       Waldo Bastian <bastian () kde ! org>
Date:       2004-01-26 21:38:13
Message-ID: 200401262238.14262.bastian () kde ! org
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Below is the press release, please review for grammar / spelling errors, I 
will send it out in about 2 hours from now.

The announcement on the website should be slightly different. In particular 
the Qt / MacOS X part should be dropped.

Cheers,
Waldo

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KDE Project Releases New Set Of Office Applications

The KDE Project will announce on tuesday the release of 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."

A KOffice version for Apple's MacOS X is planned for later this year. "KDE
as well as KOffice is built on the cross-platform Qt toolkit," explains
Waldo Bastian, a KDE developer for SUSE LINUX, "now that a free version of
Qt has been released for MacOS X it has become very straightforward to make
a MacOS X version of KOffice as well. I expect that more software vendors
will soon follow a similar approach because it is a great way to expand the
market for software products with very little effort."

Links:

http://www.koffice.org/
http://www.koffice.org/announcements/announce-1.3.php
http://www.kde.org/
http://www.kde.org/awards/
http://kde.opendarwin.org/

About KOffice/KDE

KOffice is part of the KDE Project. KDE is an independent project of hundreds
of developers, translators, artists and professionals worldwide collaborating
over the Internet to create and freely distribute a sophisticated, 
customizable and stable desktop and office environment employing a flexible,
component-based, network-transparent architecture and offering an outstanding
development platform.  KDE provides a stable, mature desktop, a full, 
component-based office suite, a large set of networking and administration 
tools and utilities, and an efficient, intuitive development environment. KDE 
is working proof that the Open Source "Bazaar-style" software development 
model can yield first-rate technologies on par with and superior to even the 
most complex commercial software.

Trademarks Notices

KDE, K Desktop Environment and KOffice are trademarks of KDE e.V. Linux is a
registered trademark of Linus Torvalds. Qt is a trademark of Trolltech AS. 
All other trademarks and copyrights referred to in this announcement are the
property of their respective owners. 

Contacts 

Africa
 Uwe Thiem
 P.P.Box 30955
 Windhoek
 Namibia
 Phone: +264 - 61 - 24 92 49
 info-africa@kde.org
 
Asia
 Sirtaj S. Kang 
 C-324 Defence Colony 
 New Delhi 
 India 110024 
 Phone: +91-981807-8372 
 info-asia@kde.org 

Europe
 Matthias Kalle Dalheimer
 Rysktorp
 S-683 92 Hagfors
 Sweden
 Phone: +46-563-540023
 Fax: +46-563-540028
 info-europe@kde.org 

North America
 George Staikos 
 889 Bay St. #205 
 Toronto, ON, M5S 3K5 
 Canada
 Phone: (416)-925-4030 
 info-northamerica@kde.org
 
Oceania
 Hamish Rodda
 11 Eucalyptus Road
 Eltham VIC 3095
 Australia
 Phone: (+61)402 346684
 info-oceania@kde.org
 
South America
 Helio Chissini de Castro
 R. José de Alencar 120, apto 1906
 Curitiba, PR 80050-240
 Brazil
 Phone: +55(41)262-0782 / +55(41)360-2670
 info-southamerica@kde.org
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