KOffice 1.2-beta1 Changelog

KOffice-1.2 will offer a "Save as KOffice-1.1" format when saving a file, to be used when sending a document to a KOffice-1.1 user (this release does not have this feature functioning properly except for simple documents). Alternatively, a KOffice-1.1 user receiving a KOffice-1.2 document (in the zip format), can use a special Perl script to convert the document back to a .tar.gz. Note that this script requires "unzip" to be installed.

DCOP scriptability has been much extended in all KOffice applications.

KWord

• Text layout and painting redesigned around WYSIWYG concept.
• KWord is also BiDi-enabled.
• Soft hyphens (inserted with Ctrl -)
• Non-breakable-spaces (inserted with Ctrl [space] or via a menu item)
• Support for hyperlinks (internet link/ address mail / file link)
• Support for text background color (marker).
• Improved handling of tabulators in ruler.
• Auto-hide mouse cursor while typing.
• "Change picture" feature.
• SVG support (for clipart).
• Module for WMF previews in Konqueror.
• Rewrite of tables where positioning is much more fool-proof and table-borders actually work.
• More intelligent table-cell-scaling for cells with mixed text lengths
• Text shadow feature.
• Double-underline feature.
• Ability to choose where to inline a frame.
• Setting tabs via the rulers is more intuitive.
• Add dcop interface : insert text, change text format, etc...
• Frame z-order ("Raise frame", "Lower frame")
• Preliminary support for background spell checking
• Support for manual completion (use ctrl E)
• Support for comments
• Ability to associate key shortcuts to styles
• "Section Title" variable
• Triple click selects a paragraph.
• New "PageUp/PageDown moves the caret" option, which defaults to false. The new behavior for PageUp/PageDown is to move the scrollbars, not the caret.

KPresenter

• Ported to the WYSIWYG text engine, shared with KWord
• New effect : kpresenter can play sounds
• Thumbnail mode for the sidebar
• Auto-hide mouse cursor while typing.
• Add notebar
• Made the statusbar useful
• New tools : freehand, polyline, quadric bezier curve, cubic bezier curve, convex/concave polygon
• Add zoom support
• Improve undo/redo (now we can undo/redo "insert new page"/"delete page"/"paste page"/"Duplicate page")
• Now kpresenter has real page
• Limit position/size object to page
• Spell checking/search/find works on all page
• Add "Show Presentation Duration"
• Add dcop interface : now we can insert text, change text format, etc...
• Add support for style
• Add support for background spell checking
• Add support for manual completion (use ctrl E)
• Add Help line
• New transition effect: Blinds, Box In/Out, Checkboard, Cover, Uncover, Dissolve, Random,...
• Add grid support
• Add Help Point
• Add support to change zoom with mouse (zoom selected area)
• Add Configure Picture Dialog

KSpread

• Many bug fixes :-)
• Performance enhancements
• Support up to 2¹⁵ (32,768) columns and rows (formerly it was 676 columns and 10000 rows)
• Support for spell-check
• Many new built-in functions (see detailed list below)
• Function name is now case-insensitive
• "Related Function" in formula editor
• Formulas: <> added, as a synonym of !=
• Improved DCOP scripting
• New functions added:
  • Conversion:
    INT2BOOL, CHARTOASCII, ASCIITOCHAR, BOOL2STRING, NUM2STRING and BOOL2INT.
  • Math:
    DIV, LCD, PRODUCT, LCM, TOGGLE, TRIM and ABS.
  • Text:
    COMPARE, CLEAN, SLEEK, PROPER and REPLACE.
  • Date/time:
    DAYS, WEEKS, MONTHS and YEARS.
  • Financial:
    DB, SLN, SYD and EURO.
  • Logical:
    XOR.
  • Statistical:
    CHIDIST, FDIST, TDIST, CONFIDENCE, BETADIST, GAMMADIST, PHI, GAUSS, MEDIAN, POISSON, GAMMALN, NORMINV, NORMSINV, WEIBULL, EXPONDIST, NORMDIST, NORMSDIST, FISHER, FISHERINV and LOGNORMDIST.

Karbon

Karbon is a new vector drawing application, in ALPHA state in this release. It currently features:

• basic path based shapes + basic affine transformations
• load/save
• illustrator-import
• eps-import/export
• svg export
• antialiased rendering with transparency.

KThesaurus

KThesarus is a new KOffice component. It is a thesaurus which can also be used as a frontend to a local installation of WordNet.

Filters

• Plain text import:
  • new dialog
  • user can choose encoding
  • user can choose if the filter should import the text as it is or if the filter should try to be smart.
• Plain text export:
  • new dialog
  • user can choose encoding
  • user can choose end of lines (LF, CR or CR/LF)
• SGML export:
  • tables
  • images (saved in a separate directory)
  • lists (one depth only)
• HTML export:
  • the former mode "document structure" is now called "light" and now exports also simple formatting.
  • the former mode "direct" is now called "basic".
  • the former mode "style" is now called "enhanced" and writes files with less redundant information.
  • user can choose encoding.
  • inlined images
  • inlined clipart (preliminary)
  • tables
  • hyperlinks
  • lists (now also of more than one depth)
  • forced line breaks
  • paper format and margins (enhanced mode only)
• AbiWord import:
  • styles (including character-based ones.)
  • images
  • hyperlinks
  • AbiWord's field are transformed to variables (if possible)
  • Not transformed fields are imported as red text.
  • forced line breaks
  • forced page breaks
  • paper format and margins
  • tabulators
• AbiWord export:
  • styles
  • inlined PNG Images (other inlined images are converted to PNG)
  • writes files with less redundant information.
  • hyperlinks
  • KWord's variables are transformed to fields (if possible)
  • forced line breaks
  • forced page breaks
  • paper format and margins
  • tabulators
• HTML import:
  • based on KHTML now, handles HTML better.
  • support basic formatting only. No CSS. Tables support disabled.
• Latex export:
  • much bugfixing
  • support of unicode with omega
  • variables
• A new XSLT filter framework for converting between XML-based office formats.