KOffice 1.5 Released

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KDE Ships New Release of Major Enhancements to Free Integrated Office Suite

OpenDocument as Default File Format, Accessibility, New Project Planning Tool, Professional Color Support and Adjustment Layers in Krita and Final Kexi 1.0 Version Highlight KOffice Release for Linux and Other UNIXes

April 11, 2006 (The INTERNET). The KDE Project today announced the final release of KOffice 1.5.

KOffice is an integrated office suite for KDE which utilizes free and open standards 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 pixel based image editing and paint application (Krita);

a vector-drawing application (Karbon14).

a technology preview of a new project management application (KPlato).

Additionally, KOffice includes robust embeddable objects:

report generator (Kugar)

Note: Kugar is deprecated in this release will be replaced with another solution. It's only included since there are users that are already using it.

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 1.5 is a subproject within KDE, a powerful and easy-to-use Internet-enabled desktop for Linux and other UNIXes. Together, KDE and KOffice constitute the only Free Software project to provide a complete desktop and productivity environment for Linux/UNIX.

KOffice and all its components (including KDE) are available for free under Open Source licenses from the KDE http and ftp mirrors.

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