KDE Office Suite

    KOffice 1.3.4 Released

    2004
    27
    Oct
    KDE Office Suite

    The KOffice team is happy to bring you the fourth bugfix package that builds upon the previous 1.3.x versions. The main goals of this release are to fix the integer overflows in KWord's PDF import filter and to be able to compile KOffice again on KDE 3.1.5 and Qt 3.1.2. See the release notes and the list of changes.

    First Krita Preview Release

    2004
    27
    Sep
    KDE Office Suite

    Krita, formerly known as Krayon,
    formerly known as KImageShop, never known as nor intended to be the Kimp, is
    available for your testing pleasure.

    LWN.net: The Grumpy Editor's Guide to Presentation Programs

    2004
    24
    Sep
    KDE Office Suite

    As part of its Grumpy Editor series, LWN.net looks at presentation software and KPresenter was given high marks: "From the outside, however, KPresenter looks like a more vibrant, fast-moving project...OpenOffice should not be written off by any means, but KPresenter looks like it may be set to surpass it."

    KOffice 1.3.3 Released

    2004
    19
    Sep
    KDE Office Suite

    The KOffice team is happy to bring you the third bugfix package that builds upon the previous 1.3.x versions, with many fixes, mainly in the core libraries and in some filters. But there is also a fully new and complete translation for KOffice: Welsh. See the release notes and the complete list of changes.

    Kexi 0.1 Beta 4 Released

    2004
    16
    Jul
    KDE Office Suite

    The Kexi Team today announced the immediate availability of Kexi 0.1 beta 4 (change log), codenamed "FireDuck", the newest preview release of the integrated environment for managing data aimed at developers and experienced users.

    KOffice 1.3.2 Released

    2004
    8
    Jul
    KDE Office Suite

    The KOffice team is happy to bring you the second bugfix package that builds upon the successful 1.3 version. Many bugs have been fixed and the filters from/to OpenOffice.org Impress and from/to OpenOffice.org Calc have been enhanced. As preview, there is a new language: Upper Sorbian. See the release notes and the complete list of changes.

    The State of KOffice

    2004
    6
    Jul
    KDE Office Suite

    When was the last time you took a look at KOffice, KDE's native office suite? This article looks at the good, and the bad, in the latest version of the 1.3 series. Although OpenOffice.org grabs most of the limelight KOffice has been steadily improving, with a low memory footprint and tight integration with Konqueror you might find useful.

    Developer Task Lists for KOffice

    2004
    19
    May
    KDE Office Suite

    The KOffice Developer Resources have now a few task lists. Please note that the tasks are meant for KOffice CVS HEAD. Nevertheless some can be done on KOffice 1.3.x too and some are even general enough to be done elsewhere in KDE too.

    KOffice 1.3.1 Released

    2004
    4
    May
    KDE Office Suite

    The KOffice team is happy to bring you the first bugfix package that builds upon the successful 1.3 version, adding even more enhanced OpenOffice.org import and export filters, improved spellchecking with ispell, fixes in hyphenation and many more. See the release notes and the complete list of changes.

    Kexi 0.1 Beta 3 Released

    2004
    2
    May
    KDE Office Suite

    The Kexi Team announced the immediate availability of Kexi 0.1 beta 3, codenamed "United Europe", a new preview release of the integrated data management environment aimed at developers and experienced users. Please read the
    announcement
    and how you can compile Kexi.