14 DAY TRIAL // The KOffice team announced on September 15th, through Inge Wallin, the second beta release of the upcoming KOffice 2.1 open source office suite. This new development version contains lots of bug fixes, especially for translations and various typos. However, the most important improvements are definitely the Microsoft Office and Powerpoint import filters implemented in the KWord and KPresenter, respectively. The aforementioned filters received lots of new formatting features and the team expects that KOffice 2.1 will be better than ever at reading the Microsoft Office file formats.
Something that is not obvious from the changelog is that there has been much activity in the MS office import filters, especially for MS Word and Powerpoint. Many new formatting features have been implemented in both these filters. We expect KOffice 2.1 to be better at reading MS file formats than any previous KOffice version. As was mentioned in the release notes for beta 1, the 2.1 release will contain new features in most applications, especially KWord, KPresenter and Krita. It also features the come back of the mathematical formula shape." - Inge Wallin said in the official announcement.
From the changelog, we can notice that almost all the included applications (KWord, Krita, KPresenter, KSpread and KPlato) have received fixes, but some of the included shapes (Formula shape, Text shape, Chart shape and Image shape) have also been improved in many areas.
KOffice is an integrated office suite that utilizes free and open standards for its document formats, component embedding and component communication. The KOffice suite includes the following applications:
· KWord Word processor; · KSpread Spreadsheet manager; · KPresenter Presentations creator; · KPlato Project management tool; · Karbon Vector graphics editor; · Krita Raster graphics editor.
Download KOffice 2.1 Beta 2 right now from Softpedia. Remember that this is a beta release and it is not suitable for production machines. It it only for testing and bug reporting!