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  KDE Ships KOffice 1.2, an Integrated Office Suite for Linux/Unix
KDE Official News Posted by Dre on Tuesday 10/Sep/2002, @15:01
from the my-my-this-is-getting-exciting dept.
The KDE Project today announced the immediate availability of KOffice 1.2. David Faure, KOffice release coordinator and developer, noted that the release features "an incredible number of improvements". What with a truly great new (English-only) thesaurus, enhanced scriptability of suite components, WYSIWYG on-screen display, bi-di text, KWord mail-merge and footnotes, and KSpread database connectivity, enhanced printing and new sorting functionality, who's to argue? And let's not overlook the constant improvements in the filters, though the HTML import took a step back to take full advantage of KHTML's powerful HTML parsing in the next release. Karbon14, the extremely promising vector-graphics program (with SVG support!), is not officially in this release but many of the packagers have packaged it as well. 'Nuff said, read the announcement or head straight to the servers and check it out yourself.


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wooohoooo!
by Navindra Umanee on Tuesday 10/Sep/2002, @15:30
Talk about the day for killer apps! A brand spanking new KOffice. Wowsa. :-)
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Before they ask: wv2 preview
by KDE User on Tuesday 10/Sep/2002, @15:56
http://lists.kde.org/?l=koffice&m=103165350323482&w=2

"David Faure and I are developing a replacement of the current MS Word filter in KOffice. The project's name is wv2 (the 2nd version of the word-view library) and consists of two parts: a document reader library, which handles the gory parsing of the MS Word documents and feeds a so-called consumer with
low-level library in other projects, too."

"Currently the filter is able to import section, paragraph and character properties, tabs, lists, and several other properties from Word 97 and Word 2000 documents (I didn't test Word XP, but it should also work). I put a screenshot showing some of those features here http://www.sbox.tugraz.at/home/t/trobin/wv2_1.png and here http://www.sbox.tugraz.at/home/t/trobin/wv2_2.png."

"It's planned to support Word 6 and Word 95 in the near future. I also have some documentation about older formats (Word 2, 3, 4, 5), but I consider support for other features like tables or embedded images more important."

"We think the filter has reached a stage where curious developers and users might want to give it a try. This would help us to test the filter on real world documents, not just on our limited set of test documents."
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How about Open Office filters...
by Adam Treat on Tuesday 10/Sep/2002, @17:28
IMHO, perfect Open Office filters would be a huge boost for KOffice and since they are properly documented, they shouldn't be very difficult. If KOffice has good support for the Open Office formats it will allow KOffice to gain from all the work of the Open Office filters.
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Mandrake?
by KDE User on Wednesday 11/Sep/2002, @04:16
Would be cool if KOffice 1.2 could make it into the upcoming Mandrake 0.9
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RedHat binaries again :(
by Eleknader on Wednesday 11/Sep/2002, @04:37
Well here we go again. No RedHat binaries!

I sent a question about this at RedHat web pages, let's see if they bother to answer. Seems like the only options I have would be a) compiling from sources or b) changing distribution...

Is someone kind person making those unofficial rpm's this time?

Best Regards,
Eleknader
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"WYSIWYG on-screen display"
by dc on Wednesday 11/Sep/2002, @06:06
"WYSIWYG on-screen display"

Wow, that makes kword finally usable for me at least.
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Installation problem on Mandrake 8.2
by Ronald on Wednesday 11/Sep/2002, @06:18
I'm running KDE 3.0.3 on Mandrake 8.2. When I try to install KOffice 1.2 I get:

error: failed dependencies:
libkugar.so.1 is needed by kde3-koffice-1.2-2mdk

Tips?
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Kivio Broken?
by Anthony on Wednesday 11/Sep/2002, @10:53
Has anyone tried Kivio and found it completely broken? I am trying to use it on SuSE 8.0 and while it will let me drop objects on a sheet, I can't add text or draw lines between them. The lines never work at all, and text causes kivio to crash. Before I report this as a bug, I am wondering if anyone else is having this problem. I am wondering if it has problem running under anything other than KDE 3.0.3, I currently have KDE 3.0.2. I didn't run into any dependancy errors when I tried to install this, and I had the beta version working okay, although I didn't try kivio in the beta (silly me).
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Huh?
by Rk on Wednesday 11/Sep/2002, @12:31
Not only is Krita not there - which to be expected, since it has basically been abandoned - but now Kontour is gone too! What, did it have to discontinued for legal reasons or technical ones?
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KLyx
by MBuch on Wednesday 11/Sep/2002, @20:55
Are there any plans to integrate a new version of KLyx in KOffice? By now there is Lyx 1.2.1 available and they are working on a GUI independent version, which seems to have got stuck a bit.

Tables are unusable in the old KLyx version (for serious work).

I believe that something like KLyx is missing badly on the Linux desktop.

MBuch
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KWord toolbar
by Frank Rizzo on Thursday 12/Sep/2002, @22:05
Looking at the screenshots, it reminded me why I steered clear of KWord to begin with: the look & feel. The toolbar buttons would look so much better if the images were at least a bit anti-aliased.

Take for instance, the Italic and Bold buttons - simply difficult to look at.
http://holgis.net/kwordpic.jpg
KWord should ship with just one (max 2) toolbar with most used functions on there.


OpenWriter isn't much better, but an improvement.
http://holgis.net/openwriterpic.jpg
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What about KFormula?
by kavau on Friday 13/Sep/2002, @01:05
It seems to me that the improvements to KFormula are coming at a rather slow rate. I tried
1.2 and wasn't able to accomplish rather simple things such as writing a definite integral,
such as $\int_{x_0}^{x_1} f(x) dx$ in LaTeX. On the other hand, maybe I'm just too stupid.

For me it's a real pity, since I would love to use KOffice to prepare my presentations. But
a good formula is a must for me. Did anyone ever thing about embedding LaTeX in KOffice
documents (like having a slimlined LyX-style interactive LaTeX tool as a replacement for
KFormula)? A workaround is, of course, to create the formulas with LaTeX and then import
them as postscript graphics, but I think a lot of people in the sciences would benefit
from an integrated solution. And this could make KOffice the #1 office suite for science
people like me.

I don't want to sound negative, however. Overall, KOffice is a great tool!

Kavau
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what about multilanguage support?
by Mohammed Arafa on Sunday 15/Sep/2002, @00:28
hi
thanks for the great work but what about multilanguage support? like arabic is a left to right language and support for it doesnt seem to be very strong.

companies here refuse to switch to linux as there isnt any arabic support for the old ms word documents.

thx
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what about multilanguage support?
by Mohammed Arafa on Sunday 15/Sep/2002, @00:29
hi
thanks for the great work but what about multilanguage support? like arabic is a left to right language and support for it doesnt seem to be very strong.

companies here refuse to switch to linux as there isnt any arabic support for the old ms word documents.

thx
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KSpread from 1.2 is not able to read a 1.2rc file
by Manfred Tremmel on Sunday 15/Sep/2002, @04:37
Is it a bug from the SuSE-Packages or from KSpread in KOffice 1.2.
Most files work in 1.2 as good as in 1.2rc1 or the betas bevore, but opening my list of Video-DVD's in KSpread from KOffice 1.2 crashes KSpread.
I've downgraded to 1.2rc1 and it works fine again.

Thanks for the response.
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Katabase
by Birger on Saturday 12/Oct/2002, @04:55
Wasn't there once a database application in Koffice called Katabase? I could use a database frontend like MS Access or Paradox for Linux. Does such a thing exist today?
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