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Subject:    [kde-announce] KOffice 1.4.2 Announcement
From:       Boudewijn Rempt <boud () valdyas ! org>
Date:       2005-10-13 9:20:48
Message-ID: 200510131120.48600.boud () valdyas ! org
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The KDE Project today announced the release of KOffice 1.4.2 for Linux and 
Unix operating systems. Support for the OpenDocument format, recently adopted 
by Massachusetts state in the USA, has been greatly improved, especially in 
KWord, KSpread and KPresenter. Karbon, a vector-based drawing program, has 
also seen a lot of development lately, and many fixes have gone into it. 

David Faure, core developer, said "with good support for the OpenDocument 
format we can offer users a lightweight and integrated alternative to 
OpenOffice. KOffice also sports a number of unique features, such as being 
able to open and edit PDFs in KWord." 

KOffice is the most comprehensive office suite in existence, whilst also being 
light-weight and fast. It provides a variety of filters to interoperate with 
other popular office suites such as OpenOffice.org and Microsoft Office. It 
is developed as part of the KDE Project. 

 Improvements 

This release is a bugfix release, which means that no new features have been 
added. However, it contains many bugfixes, and we would like to highlight the 
following: 

* Improved OASIS OpenDocument Support 

The support for the OpenDocument format has been greatly improved, especially 
in KWord, KSpread and KPresenter. In particular, care has been taken to 
insure better interoperability with the new release candidate of Open Office 
2.0. 

* Major Improvement of Karbon, the vector application 

Karbon has seen a flurry of development lately, and many fixes have gone into 
it. See all the details in the list of changes linked below. 

Please take a look at the list of changes to see all the improvements made to 
KOffice since the 1.4.1 release: 
http://www.koffice.org/announcements/changelog-1.4.2.php.

KOffice 1.4.2 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
* Krita A pixel based image manipulation application
* Kexi An integrated data management application
* Karbon14 A vector drawing application
* Kugar A tool for generating quality business reports
* KChart An integrated graph and chart drawing tool
* KFormula A powerful formula editor

This full set of components and excellent desktop integration makes KOffice 
very well suited for the Linux and Unix desktop user. 

You can get source packages and binary at: http://koffice.org/download/
-- 
Boudewijn Rempt 
http://www.valdyas.org/fading/index.cgi
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