KOffice 1.3 Beta 4 Changelog

The following summarizes the major changes to the KOffice Suite since the release of KOffice 1.3 beta3 one month ago.

KOffice Libraries

• Fixed saving of the window size when closing
• Cache the configuration object around kofficerc, to improve startup performance

KoText library features (shared between KWord and KPresenter):

• Improve hierarchical numbering - doesn't require using a suffix of '.' anymore, and doesn't copy over the prefix and suffix from parent levels anymore (#40911).
• PgUp/PgDown works better than before when "move the caret" is enabled (#45246)
• Fixed painting of non-breakable-spaces (could show up as a visible square)
• Implemented painting of non-breakable-spaces when "draw formatting characters" is on
• Fixed crash (e.g. happening with 'section title' variable, #61735)
• Fixed pasting of plain text (so that it creates new pages if necessary, #58651)
• Fixed insert dialog for date and time variables
• Added more default formats for date variables

KWord

• Fixed handling of part frames (clicking didn't select it anymore, #63041)
• Fixed cursor shape when pressing Ctrl.
• Unbreak text view mode (cursor disappeared, #57554)

KPresenter

• Fixed cursor not blinking in some cases
• Fixed "blinking cursor erases formatting characters" bug
• "Adjust object to contents" works as intended now
• Purpose of the 'Notebar' is unknown (#63037)
• kpresenter crashed when I tried to insert the variable "section title" (#61735)
• large footer from kpresenter 1.2.1 will crash kpresenter (#61449)
• embedded spreadsheet (table button) appears at wrong size (#58498)
• embedded kspread object displayed with wrong size (#33233)
• KPresenter hangs when inserted text wraps to newline (#56946)
• layer lowering is incorrect (#53277)
• resize handles deceptive when zoomed out (#61602)
• fixed painting garbage at a side of the screen in the presentation mode (on weird DPIs)

KSpread

• KSpread is slow during text to column conversion (#59999)
• fix problem cycling absolute cell reference with F4 key (#46959)
• the calculator plugin saves its configuration now (#49954)

Kivio

• Fixed layout problem at start up when using a template
• Fixed deletion of connected connectors

Filters

KWord's MSWord import filter (requiring wv2-0.1.9):

• Support for Word 6 and Word 7 (aka Word 95) files added
• Fixed the list handling for weird corner cases
• wv2 isn't so noisy anymore, when compiled with --disable-debug. Packagers are highly encouraged to use that flag.

KWord RTF export filter:

• new table support
• better conformity to RTF specification
• better export for other RTF readers
• better document information

KWord's RTF import filter:

• import non-7-bit-clean files
• fix underline import
• better date/time field support
• better picture support (all forms except "picture in shapes".)

KWord's OOWriter export filter:

• support for multiples spaces and tabulators