OSS project of the week | KOffice 1.5 Released

dot.kde.org ^ | Tuesday 11/Apr/2006 | Inge Wallin

[N3WBI3]

The KOffice team is proud to announce KOffice version 1.5. With this release, KOffice starts its ascent into the office suite hall of fame. This version sports OpenDocument as the default file format, accessibility, a new project planning tool KPlato, professional color support and adjustment layers in Krita and the long awaited Kexi 1.0. You can read more about it in the press release and the full announcement. Packages are available for Kubuntu and SUSE.

KOffice was the first to support, and now with 1.5 the second office suite to announce full support for OpenDocument (ODF) as the default file format. With two independent implementations of ODF now available it is now a true industry standard. KOffice 1.5 is therefore the version that lets enterprises and organisations all over the world choose the office suite that fits their needs best.

Great care has been taken to ensure interoperability with other office software that supports OpenDocument, most notably OpenOffice.org. We acknowledge, however, that the ODF support and interoperability is not yet perfect. We hope to be able to quickly identify and fix the incompatibilities that do exist in the upcoming 1.5.1 and 1.5.2 bugfix releases.

KOffice is already the most comprehensive office suite in existence. In addition to the basic productivity applications mentioned above, it also includes a creativity application suite featuring Krita, a paint application with lots of image manipulation features, Karbon, a vector graphics application and Kivio, a flowcharting application. Other components are Kexi, an integrated environment for creating database applications and KPlato, a program for project management.

[N3WBI3]

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[MikefromOhio]

NB4GE

:)

[ShadowAce]

NB4GE

Heck, I'm still waiting for him to show up over here. :)

[Golden Eagle]

KOffice starts its ascent into the office suite hall of fame.

LMAO!

[rzeznikj at stout]

From what I've seen, it looks great.

Though I'm waiting until the Suse RPM comes out on my YaST repository--should be a rather clean upgrade.

[FLAMING DEATH]

yay!

[MikefromOhio]

And I beat him by an hour and about 11 minutes as well hehe :)

[rzeznikj at stout]

God forbid those damned

***copyleftists***

release improved and more productive software products!!

LOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[MikefromOhio]

awww Crap I forgot!!! LOL

[rzeznikj at stout]

Ya never know when it comes in handy ;)

Heck, I keep it in my mail, so when I run BSD off the CD, I can still use it ;)

[MikefromOhio]

LOL

I hadn't figured that Iggle was going to grace us with his presence....

[softwarecreator]

New ping icon?

[softwarecreator]

office suite hall of fame

Oh, it's going to finally join Microsoft Office?

[N3WBI3]

Hey I have never said MS Office is not the best office suite out there, it beats any one else in bells and whistles. Though I do plan on taking a look at kOffice now.

I doubt however its excel equivalent will stack up..

[softwarecreator]

Though I do plan on taking a look at kOffice now.

So do I.  I can't wait to see what they have.

I doubt however its excel equivalent will stack up

I never really used their spreadsheet product.  Why do you feel it is not equal to excel?

[N3WBI3]

Excel just feels better and for a word processor thats not all that important but for a situation when you might be using formulas you never hears of its a mighty nice thing to have..

[luthers_inkwell]

People who draw circles and pentagrams on the floor, light candles and prepare incantations should not then complain of demonic influence. :)

[FLAMING DEATH]

ha!

[ExDemSince92]

It has a long way to go before it catches OpenOffice, let alone Microsoft Office.

Nice to see them go for it though. The more options out there, the better.

They have an opportunity to do something without nonsense bloat and frills but I don't guess they will take it.

I sense featuritis will soon catch and spread :(