KOffice 1.2-RC1 Changelog

KOffice Libraries

• All KOffice applications now offer a readonly GUI when embedded (e.g. into Konqueror)
• Installing KOffice into a different prefix than KDE should now work automatically
• More DCOP calls
• Cliparts are now previewed at their original size

KWord

• Fixed WYSIWYG algorithm, no more negative spaces at some zoom levels.
• Transparency painting fixes: transparent frames, including text frames. Note that transparent images do not print properly with the current Qt, Qt 3.1 will fix it.
• Footnote layout fix, when multiple footnotes are on the same page and the last one won't fit.
• Improved algorithm for the way the text flows between frames of the same frameset.
• Zigzag lines for background checked words.
• Fixed paragraph height increasing when inserting a footnote.
• Fixed the white lines during the painting of inline frames.
• Fixed footer layout in some first/even/odd footer settings.
• Fixed baseline alignment for variables.
• Delete overflowing frame (in auto-resize mode) when removing all text from it.
• Compress repaint events coming from the background spell-checking.

• Several fixes for the readonly case.
• Unified picture handling (images and clipart).
• Improvements to frame dialog when opened for multiple frames, many crashes fixed.
• Fixed frame-creation rectangle remaining visible in margin after right click.
• Many fixes for the background spellchecking.
• Many fixes for "Insert File" (pictures, embedded objects, inline frames,...).
• Ability to use the text view mode for any text frameset.
• Embedded document must be selected before clicking on them starts editing them.
• More KOffice-1.1 compatibility on saving (when explicitly requested).
• Save correct variable value even when variable codes are displayed.
• When making an inline frame non-inline, ensure it appears on top (bigger z-order).
• 'Copy' exports paragraph numbers with the text.
• Keep key shortcuts when rebuilding dynamic menus (e.g. style lists).
• Fixed 'raise frame' and 'lower frame' (handle equality case).
• Several GUI fixes.
• No header/footer available in DTP mode.
• No page layout, frame resizing etc. in the text view mode.
• More robustness in DCOP calls (to prevent crashes).
• Faster pasting of text.
• Fix use keyboard when frameset is set to protect content.
• Fix reload PgUp and PgDn config.
• Fixed disappearing frame after undo-ing deletion of inline frame.
• Inserting a non-inline table makes the text flow around it by default.
• Picture preview has now scroll bars for big pictures.
• Fix save picture dialog (We can only save in the format of the internal data.)

• Fixed preview in paragraph dialog (was truncated).
• Fixed font size applied by "Find/Replace with formatting" and "Autocorrection with formatting".
• Fixed background color not applied by "Find/Replace with formatting".
• Fixed crash when we remove "autocorrect word formatted".
• Fixed mem leak in autocorrect dialogbox (autocorrect list was not deleted).
• Fixed non/working undo/redo when changing paragraph settings for a whole text frameset.
• Fixed calculation of centering (visible on very short paragraphs).
• The height of the cursor now depends on the character on the left of the cursor instead of being as high as the biggest char in the paragraph).

• Do not crash when pasting an embedded object (not implemented though).
• Fixed crash when removing a footnote variable.
• Fixed crash when we close kword and "special char dialogbox" is not closed.
• Fixed several problems with footnote layout.
• Fixed crash when we delete style that is also used as a 'following style'.
• Fixed crash with bookmarks.
• Fixed several memory leaks.
• Fixed crash when we canceled create time/date variable.

KPresenter

• Fix resize text object.
• Fix webpresentation => display real variable value.
• Fix autocorrection (crash/change language etc...).
• Fix update sidebar.
• Fix key stroke handling when text object has protect content enabled.
• Fix group object : allow to change text object attribute, fix load close object etc...
• Width and height spin boxes in the style dialog are now coupled when keep aspect ratio is in effect.
• Fix unselect object: use right button + shift.
• Fixed rounded rectangle + gradient.
• Fixed saving shadowed objects (when only their color differed from the defaults).
• Restored a lot of backwards compatibility (formatting, bullets, numbers, whitespace handling etc.)
• Speedup in displaying of the pixmap objects.
• Fixed the drawing of the background (no gradient when background is an image or a clipart).
• Unified picture handling (images and clipart).
• Fix save picture dialog (We can only save in the format of the internal data.)

• Fixed crash when we close KPresenter and "special char dialogbox" is not closed.
• Fixed several memory leaks.
• Fixed crash when we cancel insert time/date variable.
• Fixed crash when we duplicate page and there was an embedded document.
• Fixed crash when we split view and we try to open menu when factory() is null.
• Fixed crash when we didn't select a slide and try to launch presentation.

KSpread

• Fix cancel 'add embedded document'.
• Fix mem leak.
• Fix copy/paste attribute.
• Fix offset of rotated text in one case (top/middle).

Kugar

• New docs for kugar and kudesigner included.
• MIME type for *.kut files added.
• kudesigner is now able to open *.kut files from cmd line.
• Edit toolbar is added to kudesigner (edit and delete report objects).
• LastPage and FirstPage tool buttons are now shown in kugar shell.
• Shared library for kugar is now compiled and installed.
• Sample data files are installed together with sample templates.

• Fixed elements arrangement in kudesigner when adding or removing sections.
• Fixed property saving for report objects in kudesigner.
• Fixed DTD for report templates.
• Fixed incorrect names for line's properties in kudesigner.
• Templates are saved in utf8 in kudesigner.
• Templates saved by kudesigner now comply with DTD.
• Line element is displayed as line in kudesigner.
• File-menu Save is now working

• Fixed crash when we open reports with kugar shell from current dir.

Filters

• WordPerfect export for KWord.

• Add support for more underline types (double, thick, dot, dash-dot, dash-dot-dot).
• Add support for soft hyphens.
• Fix inserting Unicode characters.
• Support of hyperlinks.
• Fixing image support.
• Add field support.