The KOffice team is happy to release KOffice 2.1.1, the first bugfix release in the 2.1 series. This release contains no new features but a number of bugfixes for most of the components in KOffice 2.1. More details of the 2.1.1 release can be found in the changelog. This version of KOffice is translated to no less than 27 languages.

As was noted in the announcement for 2.1.0, KOffice 2.1.1 is probably still not usable for production work.

Many Linux distributions package KOffice 2.1.1. A Windows version is expected within a month. If you wish to build KOffice from the source, you can download them at downloads.kde.org. You can find instructions on how to build them on the KOffice wiki..

The KOffice team is very happy to announce version 2.1.0 of KOffice, 6 months after the platform release 2.0.0. This release brings a number of new features as well as general improvements in the maturity of the individual applications. Importing of documents have also been given an overhaul.

The advantages of the clean and well-structured codebase have started to show. Despite a relatively limited developer group, there are a large number of improvements over 2.0. During the development of 2.1, it was also announced that KOffice is going to be used in the Nokia n900 smartphones based on Maemo Linux.

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The KOffice team is happy to announce the first release candidate of KOffice 2.1. As usual, the team has worked diligently and has now been able to remove all the release blocker bugs. See the full changelog for the details.

The application that has received the most bugfixes is once again Krita. Also KWord has seen numerous improvements in many places, and the Microsoft Word filter has once again been improved. The same goes for KPresenter and its Powerpoint import filter and KSpread.

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General

• Fix many translations related issues.
• Fix many typos.

Libraries

• Fix: multiple tool docker appearing on spliting view.
• Fix: update of menu entries when a view is removed, and/or that only a single view remain (205898).
• Fix: crash when a document is deleted.

Applications

KWord

• Fix: layout hangs kword when loading a document.
• Fix page numbers on headers.
• Fix kword loads only 36 pages of 400-page document (180809).
• Fix positioning of the counter / text for RTL paragraphs.
• Fix check of the document for bidi-ness (186100).
• Honor the left indent of a line.
• Fix: tool decoration are drawn too small (205262).
• Fix: kword opening at the bottom of the page.
• MS Word import

• Fix importing tables.
• Parse paragraph properties.

KSpread

• Fix: selection of a range of cells with the mouse (198666).
• Implement “None” as an option of where to move the cursor after an edit
  of a cell (199412).

KPresenter

• Fix page count variable (187838).
• Group layout actions into one undo action (205374).
• MS Powerpoint import
  • Parse paragraph properties.
  • Fix importing pictures.

KPlato

• Fix: connecting dependencies by drag and drop.
• Improve ui of the view selector.
• Load translation catalog for timezones.
• Fix memory leaks.
• Fix crash in view selector.
• Fix a crash when calculating the first schedule.

Krita

• Fix: krita starting unnecessarily with a bigger window than screens.
• PDF
  • Fix: loading of high resolution PDFs.
  • Allow to select higher than 1000 DPI when importing PDFs.
• Fix: serialization/deserialization of brush masks.
• Fix: color filters not respecting the selection.
• Fix: undoing a translation with the transform tool (205582 and 205584).
• Fix: undo a transformation step should bring the tool back to its previous position (205582)
• Fix: saving of the resolution when exporting a single layer.
• Fix: undoing moving a layer with an active selection.
• Fix: the undo stack doesn’t work after using the move layer tool.
• Fix: editing a perspective grid at zoom level different of 100% (206541).
• Fix: grid editing tool using a wrong offset depending on the zoom level.
• Fix: flake tools adding shapes to the vector selection (185637).
• Fix: duplicate op using newly drawn stroke.
• Fix: crash when changing the color space of an image.
• Fix: allow to undo the creation of the shape layer created when adding a shape in a krita image (164625).
• Fix: use a more useful threshold for the gaussian noise reduction (139468).
• Fix: saving of resolution in tiff files, when exporting a flatenned image (135664).
• Fix: translation of the CTL color spaces.
• Fix: for untranslated tooltips in resource view (205929).
• Fix: lines drawn with the freehand tool are shaky.
• Performance optimization in transparency mask.
• Fix: redoing a cut doesn’t redo the cut (205846).
• Partial fix of duplicating shape layer add the shapes to the wrong layer (205645).
• Fix: duplicating of a mask through the mask menu (205646).
• Fix: crash when selecting the children of a duplicated node.
• Fix: crash when duplicating a layer with a filter mask.
• Refresh the display after a cut, change of size or crop.
• Fix: crash, in the macro editor, when selecting a filter with a configuration widget (205199).
• Disable scaling and rotating menu on vector layer (205635).
• Disable tonemapping on a non paint layer (205635).
• Fix: crash when selecting one of the LAB Histogram, while Alpha is currently active (205641).
• Fix: crash when selecting the brush paint op and no brush is selected (205567).
• Fix: split view crash (205121 and 191224).
• Fix: crash when croping (197700).
• Fix: brightness/contrast filter.

Shapes

Formula shape

• Fix ODF saving and loading.

Chart shape

• Use the Normal subtype as default for Radar charts.
• Make the Radar chart support subtypes stacked and percentage.
• Make the Bar chart read and store the vertical property.
• Fix: bubble and surface charts are not of polar type, but cartesian.

Text shape

• Fix text position in lists.
• Only apply format if the cell is actually valid (206129)
• Make the left paragraph border visible even when there is a frame shown around the text shape.
• Fix: layout doesn’t make list counters flow around other shapes (159257)
• Fix: RTL list counters to be positioned inside the text shape.
• Fix drawing list items when the first char of a line is big while the list counters are small.
• Fix: Changing the font size in the first line of a list doesn’t move the list counter appropriately.
• Fix: Underlined text with path object (171686)
• Fix: cursor is always blinking on the left in empty line, ignoring alignment setting (189249)
• Fix: text Run Around adjustment doesn’t take immediate effect (194531)
• Fix: styles list has inconsistent ordering (180938).
• Fix: style manager layout (196391).
• Fix opening and saving of linespacing.

Image shape

• Fix: loading/saving of unsupported format.

Tools

Connection tool

• Change the color of the glue points to make then looks better.

The KOffice team is happy to announce the first Beta of the upcoming second release that implement the KOffice 2 vision. This release brings many improvements to the user experience, with bug fixes, improved file support handling, as well as new features.

Coloured Cells in KOffice

This release brings support for viewing tables created in other applications, it also offers editing of cell content.

This release also features the come back of a formula shape, support for filters on shape, and many new painting operation in Krita.

Read the full Changelog.

Download the sourcecode tarball at downloads.kde.org

Libraries

• Filter effect on shapes:

KPresenter

• Support for drawing and higlighting on the presentation mode.

UI Improvements:
• Context menu in the document view
• Canvas is bigger than the current slide

Karbon

• PDF Import

Krita

• New painting operations: curvebrush, deform, dynadraw, spray
• 3D Brush visualisation
• Some elements of the dynamic brush are merged in the brush paintop, for a more comprehensive user interface
• Support for Shiva kernels
• Initial macro support: record filters and allow editing.

Shapes

• Table viewing, with limited editing
• Formula shape

Tools

• Connection tool

Download the sourcecode tarball at downloads.kde.org

You can find packages of KOffice 2.0.2 here:

• Gentoo: koffice

The KOffice team is happy to release KOffice 2.0.2, the second bugfix release in the 2.0 series. This release contains no new features but a number of bugfixes for almost all of the components in KOffice 2.0. This is likely the last bugfix release of 2.0 before starting the 2.1 series in October this year.

More details of the 2.0.2 release can be found in the changelog. This version of KOffice is translated to no less than 27 languages.

You can find source and binary packages for 2.0.2 here.

Libraries

• Fix: shape fill incorectly rendered (197088).

kword

• Fix: crash when kword is embedded and the user right-click (197998).

kpresenter

• Fix: crash when activating a layout imported from a .ppt file (198119).
• Fix: crash when kpresenter imports a non-existing file (197926).

kplato

• Fix hiding columns when cbs model is reset.

karbon

• Keep snap to grid actions synchronized.

kchart

• Load and save the floor and wall of the plot area.

plugins

• Default tool: use the current spot as the center for resize.
• Text shape: fix paragraphs with list indent having the wrong width.
• Image shape: make changing the image undoable (200220).
• .doc:
  • Fix: closing of nested lists to not close too many items.
  • Fix: crash when loading .doc file (180884).