| KDE releases KOffice 1.2 beta |
Apr. 26, 2002
the Internet -- (press release excerpt) -- The KDE Project announced the immediate release of KOffice 1.2beta1, the first preview release for KOffice 1.2, scheduled for release this September. 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 is principally a public testing and developer solicitation release (more help is welcome!).
This release includes a frame-based, full-featured word processor (KWord); a presentation application; (KPresenter); a spreadsheet application; (KSpread); a flowchart application; (Kivio); business quality reporting software; (Kugar); and two vector-drawing applications (alpha) (Kontour and Karbon14). Additionally, KOffice includes robust embeddable charts (KChart) and formulas (KFormula) as well as a built-in thesaurus (KThesaurus) and numerous import and export filters. KOffice 1.2beta1 is available only in English; translations are expected to have caught up by the next beta release.
KOffice 1.2beta1 complements the release of KDE 3.0 late last month. KDE is a powerful and easy-to-use Internet-enabled desktop for Linux and other UNIXes, and together with KOffice constitutes the only Open Source 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 KDE.org's ftp mirrors.
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