KOffice
KOffice was a popular
integrated office suite for KDE,
the K Desktop Environment.
KOffice consists of a word processor, spreadsheet,
presentation program, flowchart drawing program, vector drawing
program,
bitmap graphics manipulation program, integrated report and chart
generators, integrated mathematical formula editor, integrated data
management application, and a project management application.
All of its components are released under free software/open
source licenses.
KOffice supports the Open Document Format (ODF), an ISO
standard. This guarantees interoperability with many other
Office packages such as OpenOffice.org
and MS Office.
Nokia has created a document viewer for the Maemo
5 platform (Fremantle) based on KOffice and uses the KWord and
KPresenter applications to load and display word processor and
presentation documents.
KWord
KWord is a
frame-based word-processing and desktop publishing application. KWord
is capable of creating professional looking documents.
Frame oriented word processors work by creating one or more
frames
per page. Each frame acts as a boundary (like
a frame which surrounds a photograph), which limits the text to the
boundaries of the frame. You can move and re-size boundaries to define
exactly where on the page the text will be placed. As you resize
frames, the text is reworked to fit within these frames.
Features include:
- Paragraph style sheets (borders, alignment, spacing,
indentation, bullet points, tab stops, page breaks, and font type,
style, color and size), together with a stylist to edit, add, remove
and update styles (a number of predefined styles are provided)
- A frame orientation, suitable for simple desktop
publishing (DTP)
- Numerous preset as well as custom page sizes
- Multiple columns per page
- Headers and footers (including different first page
headers/footers)
- Variables, such as page number, company name, user name,
document summary, date and time or a custom variable
- Tables
- Embedding of text frames, images and clip-art (.wmf and
.svg files)
- Chapter numbering
- Auto-generation of table of contents
- Auto-correction and spell checking
- Templates
- Uses the standard ISO 26300 OpenDocument format
KSpread
KSpread is a scriptable spreadsheet program which provides
both table-oriented sheets and support for complex mathematical
formulas and statistics.
Features include:
- Multiple tables/sheets per document
- Templates
- Multiple chart formats for displaying data graphically
- Headers and footers
- Over 100 formulas, including standard deviation, variance,
present value of annuities and much more
- Sorting
- Scripting
- Lists
- Cell data validity checking with configurable
warnings/actions
- Comments
- Series (days of week, months of year, numbers, etc.)
- Conditional coloring of cells
- Hyperlinks
- Row and column customization (size, show/hide, font type,
style and size, etc.)
- Cell customization (data/number format, precision, border,
alignment, rotation, background color and pattern, font type, style and
size, etc.)
KPresenter
KPresenter is a full-featured presentation program. It lets
you prepare a set of slides for printing or as an on-screen slideshow.
Slides can include a variety of text and graphics with
embedded objects.
Features include:
- Inserting and editing rich text (with bullet points,
indentation, spacing, colors, fonts, etc.)
- Embedding images and clip-art (.wmf files)
- Inserting auto-forms
- Setting many object properties (background, many types of
gradients, pen, shadow, rotation, object specific settings, etc.)
- Working with objects (resizing, moving, lowering, raising,
etc.)
- Grouping/ungrouping objects
- Headers/footers
- Advanced undo/redo
- Setting background (color, gradients, pictures, clip-arts,
etc.)
- Assigning effects for animating objects and defining
effects for changing slides
- Playing screen presentations with effects
- PostScript printing
- Creating HTML slideshows with a few mouse clicks
- Templates (pre- and user-defined)
- XML as the document format
- A Presentations Structure Viewer
- Infinite canvas
- Slide numbers
- Support for the standard OASIS OpenDocument file format
Kexi
Kexi is an integrated environment for creating databases and
database
applications.
Features include:
- Full visual designers for tables, queries and forms.
Queries can be also designed in dedicated SQL view
- Running queries, support for parametrized queries.
- Data entry and sorting
- Support for "Object" data allowing to store images of many
types.
- Designing and displaying relational data using combo boxes
(lookup columns)
- Simple printounts for table and query data with robust
print preview
- Advanced CSV data import and export from files. Copying to
clipboard and pasting from clipboard is also available, thus the data
can be easily transferred to applications like spreadsheets or word
processors
- User Mode, allowing to switch off all commands related to
editing project's design
- "Find" window for searching thought table and form's
contents with rich set of options
- Support for simple database templates
- Supported database engines: SQLite, MySQL,
PostgreSQL
- Data/Project Migration Tools
- Scripting and Macros (Python
and Ruby supported)
Kivio
Kivio is the KOffice flowchart and diagram creation tool. It allows you
to create accurate
scale diagrams by arranging pre-drawn shapes and stencils on a page.
The stencils might represent stages of a process, office furniture or
components on an electronic circuit. Kivio comes with a large
collection of different stencils which are grouped into collections,
known as stencil sets, by subject area including flowcharting,
electronics and computer networks. Objects are scriptable, and a
backend plugin system offers the ability to make objects do just about
anything.
Features include:
- Scriptable stencils using Python
- Support for Dia
stencils
- Plugin framework for adding more functionality
Karbon14
Karbon 14 is a sacable vector drawing application, which allows artists
to create complex drawings
Krita
Krita is a layered pixel image manipulation
application
Krita contains both ease-of-use and fun features like guided
painting
and high-end features like support for 16 bit images, CMYK, L*a*b and
OpenEXR HDR images.
The program has pressure-sensitivity support for the stylus,
eraser,
and cursor functions of graphics tablets.
Features include:
- Supports many managed colorspaces, like rgb, grayscale,
cmyk, lab, ycbcr and lms, in 8 and 16 bits per channel
- Import RAW images in 8 and 16 bits per channel and load and
save image formats: tiff, png, jpeg
- Krita has a large array of tools: freehand, line,
rectangle, ellipse, polygon, polyline, star, bezier curve, duplicate,
paint-with-filters, crop, move, transform, perspective transform,
contiguous fill, gradient, text, color picker, pan, zoom, perspective
grid, selection paint, selection erase, rectangular select, elliptical
select, polygonal select, contiguous area (magic wand), outline,
magnetic selection, bezier curve select and select by similar colors.
All paint tools can be used in soft brushes, hard pencil, airbrush or
eraser mode. SIOX-like foreground extraction is in the works
- Image layers, group layers, adjustment layers
- Perspective operations including a perspective
transformation tool and a grid which allows you to manipulate vanishing
points
- Krita is scriptable in Python
and Ruby and offers a small, but useful DCOP interface.
- A rich set of filters for image enhancement, color
enhancement and artistic reinterpretation of images
- Infinite canvas
- Dyna tool which simulates a pressure sensitive input
device by using the speed of the mouse
KPlato
KPlato is an integrated project management and planning tool.
Features include:
- Gantt chart with task list and resource allocations per
task
- Resource view with task allocations per resource
- Accounts view showing planned cost with configurable
cut-off date and periodicity
- Tasks are organized in a work breakdown structure (WBS)
- Resources are organized in a resource breakdown structure
(RBS)
- Accounts are organized in a cost breakdown structure (CBS)
- Gantt chart can optionally show:
- Task links (dependencies)
- Task name.
- Allocated resources
- Float (slack)
- Critical path
- Critical tasks
- Progress (% completion)
- Summary tasks, Tasks, and
milestones are supported.
- Dialogs to create and edit the project, the different
types
of tasks, calendars, resources, accounts and progress
- Task links can be of types: Finish to Start, Finish
toFinish or Start
to Start. All types can have a time lag defined.
- Different scheduling constraints are supported:
- As soon as possible (early start)
- As late as possible (late start)
- Must start on target time
- Must finish on target time
- Start not earlier than target time
- Finish not later than target time
- Fixed interval. (Target start time and
target finish time.)
KChart
KChart is an integrated graph and chart drawing tool.
It supports the following chart types:
- Bar: normal | stacked | percent, 2D | 3D-Look
- Line: normal | stacked | percent, line markers
- Area: normal | stacked | percent
- HiLo: normal | open-close
- Box & Whiskers
- Pie: normal | exploded, 2D | 3D
- Ring
- Polar: normal | stacked | percen
KFormula
KFormula is powerful formula editor. It can be used to
create
and edit
mathematical formulas that can be included in other KOffice documents.
Features include:
- Easy Greek letter insertion
- Intelligent cursor movement
- Advanced syntax highlighting
- Multi-level undo support
- LaTeX export (copy and paste into a text editor)
- MathML import
Kugar
Kugar is a tool for generating business quality reports which can be
viewed and printed. It includes a standalone report viewer and a KPart
report viewer.
Features include:
- Kugar report designer
- Report printing in Postscript
- Database/datasource neutral, data is supplied to the
report
engine in XML
- Support for direct database access
- Open report definition files, report layout is stored in
XML
- Full control of fonts, colors, text alignment and wrapping
- Report Header/Footer
- Page Header/Footer
- Detail Section
- Detail Header/Footer
- Unlimited number of detail levels
- Grand totals: count, sum, average, variance and standard
deviation
- Additional formatting (negative numbers, currency, commas
for numbers and dates)
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