KOffice 1.4.2 Announcement

DATELINE OCTOBER 11, 2005

KOffice 1.4.2 Released by the KDE Project

October 11, 2005 (The INTERNET). 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.

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.

Can't wait to see the new KOffice? Fetch the KOffice 1.4.2 Live-CD.

Getting KOffice 1.4.2

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 Boudewijn Rempt for his excellent services as coordinator for this release.

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Press Release: Written by Inge Wallin.

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