KOffice 1.3-beta2 Changelog
The following summarizes the major changes to the KOffice Suite since the release of KOffice 1.3 beta1 one month ago.
KOffice Libraries
- Support for opening backup files (e.g. foo.kwd~)
- Page Layout Dialog: validate user input to prevent nonsense (e.g. margins wider than page)
KoText library features (shared between KWord and KPresenter):
Formatting:- Fixed drawing of word-by-word underline and strikeout
- Repainting fixes (in multiline paragraphs)
- Linespacing fixes (at-least and multiple work as advertised, added "fixed")
- Major reduction of the memory usage per paragraph
- Hyphenation fixes (support for breaking the same words more than once)
- Shadow is now a character property (instead of a paragraph property)
- More precise painting of paragraph borders
KWord
New features:- PDF import filter
- Frames default to "auto-resize" mode instead of "auto-create-new-page"
- Better handing of "auto-resize" mode (manually-set size acts as minimum size)
- Make the find dialog avoid the area where the match is (requires kdelibs-CVS, will be in kde-3.2)
KPresenter
New features:- flip groups horizontally/vertically (#45561)
- fixed loading of old documents with invalid paragraph indents
- paste image gives tiny initial object (#59058)
- setting the font size in the toolbar doesn't work (#39786)
- objects disappears on the rightside of a dinA0 presentation (#37370)
- large unwanted offset in print preview and printing (#56123)
KSpread
- adjust print zoom to limit printout to m x n pages
- new functions: GETPIVOTDATA, BESSELI, BESSELJ, BESSELK, BESSELY, ERF, ERFC, CONVERT
- new templates: Balance Sheet, Price Quotation, Packing Slip
Kugar
- Kugar and Kugar Designer are now pure KOffice applications. Partification was made and KOffice zipped xml format is used
- Undo/Redo functionality in Kugar Designer
- Direct database support in Kugar
Kivio
- Fixed embedding of kivio in other KOffice app
- Implemented real clipboard support
- Added more stencils
- Improved diastencil support
- Added template support
Karbon
- new tool controller
- refactoring flattenpath command after WMF filter changes
- zooming fix
- svg exporting uses document dimension, not dimension of the active selection
- new style docker introduced, with dragable clipart
- added aspect-ratio keeping way of scaling for select tool
- various ui tweaks, including new icons
- improved behavior for strokefill preview widget
- speedups on large documents for the document tree widget
Filters
KWord:- new OpenOffice.org Writer export filter
- new OpenOffice.org Impress export filter
- OpenOffice.org Draw import filter with limited functionality
- Improvements on SVG import/export
- Improvements on Kontour import filter
The KOffice Project