KOffice 1.4.1 Announcement

July 25, 2005 (The INTERNET). The KDE Project today announced the immediate release of KOffice 1.4.1 for Linux and Unix operating systems. KOffice is an integrated set of free office applications based on the award winning KDE desktop. KOffice is a light-weight yet complete and feature rich office solution and provides a variety of filters to interoperate with other popular office suites such as OpenOffice.org and Microsoft Office. Among various bugfixes and improvements, the KOffice 1.4.1 release further improves support for the OASIS OpenDocument file format.

KOffice 1.4.1 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 business quality 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 one of the most complete office suites available.

Major Improvements in the KOffice 1.4.1 release are:

• Improved OASIS OpenDocument Support, especially in KWord and KPresenter
• Crash fixes for Kexi, Krita, KWord and KSpread
• Krita Performance Improvements
• Various other bugfixes

Please take a look at the list of changes to see all the improvements made to KOffice since the 1.4 release.

Can't wait to see the new KOffice? Fetch the KOffice 1.4.1 Live-CD.

Getting KOffice 1.4.1

Download information can be found on the KOffice website.

About KOffice and KDE

KOffice is part of the KDE Project. KDE is an award-winning, independent project of hundreds of developers, translators, artists and other 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 including a state-of-the-art browser (Konqueror), a personal information management suite (Kontact), a full office suite (KOffice), a large set of networking application and utilities, and an efficient, intuitive development environment featuring the excellent IDE KDevelop.

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.

Release Coordinator: Thanks to David Faure for his excellent services as release coordinator.

Press Release: Written by Raphael Langerhorst.

Trademarks Notices. KDE, K Desktop Environment and KOffice are trademarks of KDE e.V. Incorporated. WordPerfect is a registered trademarks of Corel Corporation or Corel Corporation Limited. Linux is a registered trademark of Linus Torvalds. Trolltech and Qt are trademarks of Trolltech AS. UNIX is a registered trademark of The Open Group. All other trademarks and copyrights referred to in this announcement are the property of their respective owners.

Press Contacts