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KOffice 1.6 ReleasedNext Generation Office Suite! |
By Marius Nestor, Linux Editor
18th of October 2006, 07:38 GMT
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KOffice team has announced yesterday the release of its next generation office suite, KOffice 1.6:
"The KOffice team is proud to announce the 1.6.0 release of its office suite. This release is mostly a feature release of Krita and Kexi, but also contains major enhancements to the OpenDocument and MathML support of KFormula and new scripting functionality. This version also contains a vastly improved version of KPlato, our project planning application. Download packages for Kubuntu, SuSE or you can try before you install with the KOffice 1.6 live CD."
Highlights of this release are:
￭ Krita Steps Up into the Realms of Professional Image Editing
With this release, Krita steps up and becomes usable for professional image editing. Krita and its maintainer won the prize for "Best Application" at this year's KDE conference in Dublin. With features such as magnetic selection, effect layers, color model independency, and full scriptability, it has risen to become what is probably the best free image editing program today. For more details, look in the Principal Improvements below, or the complete changelog.
￭ Kexi Adds Many New Features
Kexi, the desktop database application competing with MS Access, is the other application in KOffice that is already the best of its kind. Kexi has received over 270 improvements since version 1.0 (KOffice 1.5). With this release, Kexi gains such features as the ability to handle images, compact the database, automatic datatype recognition and Kross scripting tools. Other parts have also been much developed with both new features and ease of use in mind.
￭ KFormula Goes to OpenDocument and MathML
The formula editor of KOffice now supports OpenDocument and MathML and uses it as its default file format. It also surpasses the equivalent component in OpenOffice.org, scoring 70% on the W3C MathML test suite, compared to 22% for OpenOffice.org Formula. The KOffice team sees this as one of the many examples where the work to provide a very well-structured codebase of KOffice pays off to provide superior support for the existing standard.
￭ Scripting Support in KSpread, Krita and Kexi
KOffice 1.6 brings scripting to a new level with scripting functionality in KSpread, Krita and Kexi. Scripting is provided through the cross-language script bridge Kross, which enables KOffice to be scripted in Python, Ruby with possible future extensions of Javascript and Java. With this release, KOffice also introduces pure command-line scripting where e.g. spreadsheet documents can be automatically manipulated with scripts to create many new use cases.
The team says that this will be the last non-bugfix release until version 2.0, which will build on Qt 4 and KDE 4 technology.
Read more at the official release announcement, here.
About KOffice:
KOffice is an integrated office suite, today mostly 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 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.
You can download KOffice now from Softpedia.
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