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The KDE Project today announced the release of KOffice version 1.6.2, the second maintenance release of KOffice 1.6. Since this is a maintenance release, only two of the components, Krita and Kexi, added new features.
Highlights
Since this is a maintenance release, only two of the
components, Krita and Kexi, added new features.
Security Fix in the KWord Import filter for PDF
This release fixes a security issue with the PDF
import filter for KWord. All users should upgrade to 1.6.2 for this
reason alone.
New Krita Features and Many Improvements
Krita,
the image editing application of KOffice has gotten a new Half Toning
filter, a new Colorify filter and a Smudge paint operation, that
simulates the effect of dragging a finger over the canvas. Among the
improvements can be mentioned that the transform tool got many
improvements in this release.
New Kexi Features and Many Improvements
Kexi, the
desktop database application that competes with MS Access, is the other
application in KOffice that got new features in this release. Among
them can be mentioned a "User Mode" that makes it easy to deploy Kexi
applications and a much extended "Assign action" command for buttons in
a form. There are also numerous other improvements that makes this the
best and most stable release of Kexi so far.
Four New Translations
This release introduces 4 new translations: Farsi,
Irish, Galician and Khmer, making KOffice available in 36 languages.
Improvements For Most Other Components
Almost all of the other components got some bugs
fixed. See the
complete changelog for the complete information.
About KOffice
KOffice is an integrated office suite, today mostly
for KDE, which utilizes free and open standards like OpenDocument for
its document formats, component communication and component embedding.
This release includes:
- a frame-based, full-featured word processor (KWord);
- a spreadsheet application (KSpread);
- a presentation application (KPresenter);
- a flowchart application (Kivio);
- an integrated database application (Kexi);
- a new project management application (KPlato).
- a pixel based image editing and paint application (Krita);
- a vector-drawing application (Karbon14).
Additionally, KOffice includes robust embeddable objects:
- business quality reporting software (Kugar)
- full-featured charting engine (KChart)
- mathematical formula handling (KFormula)
as well as a built-in thesaurus (KThesaurus) and support for many
different file formats.
KOffice and all its components (including KDE) are
available for free under Open Source
licenses from the KDE http and ftp
mirrors.
Corporate KOffice Sponsors
Besides the valuable and excellent efforts by the KOffice developers
themselves, significant support for KOffice development has been
provided by Mandriva (which
sponsors KOffice developer Laurent Montel), Trolltech (which sponsors KOffice
developer David Faure), theKompany.com
(which has contributed Kivio and Kugar to KOffice), Klarälvdalens
Datakonsult AB (which has contributed KDChart to KOffice), OpenOffice Polska which
employs Kexi developer Jaros³aw Staniek and sponsored the KDElibs
for win32 project which enabled the porting of KOffice applications
to MS Windows, Google which
through the "Summer of Code" program supports Alfredo Beaumont to work
on OpenDocument and MathML support for KFormula and Emmanuele Tamponi
to work on a framework for curves in Krita. In addition, individual sponsors (donate), provide significant
support for KDE and KOffice. Thanks!
Press Release: Written by
Inge Wallin
Trademarks Notices. KDE, K
Desktop Environment and KOffice are trademarks of KDE e.V. Linux is a
registered trademark of Linus Torvalds. Trolltech and Qt are trademarks
of Trolltech AS. UNIX is a registered trademark of The Open Group. All
other trademarks and copyrights referred to in this announcement are
the property of their respective owners.
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