KOffice 1.5 Released 296
ingwa writes to tell us that the KOffice team has released version 1.5 which offers, among other things, default OpenDocument file format, new project planning tool KPlato, professional color support and adjustment layers in Krita and the long awaited Kexi 1.0. From the announcement: "KOffice was the first office suite that announced support for OpenDocument and now the second to announce it as the default file format after OpenOffice.org. This makes KOffice a member of a very select group and will lead to new deployment opportunities. Great care has been taken to ensure interoperability with other office software that also use OpenDocument."
Krita (Score:5, Informative)
Anyone who's ever complained about the gimp needs to check out Krita [koffice.org], the paint application in KOffice. As of 1.5, it now has support for adjustment layers and layer groups, 2 of the things I missed most in the gimp. It also has CMYK support and does not have separate windows for all the tools (something that never bothered me but soooo many people complain about it). The difference between 1.4 and 1.5 of Krita is absolutely amazing, I figure give them 6 more months and they will have passed gimp in functionality. Too bad Krita is KDE only though, so no help for windows users looking for a good free photo editing suite.
Poor table support (Score:2, Informative)
Re:But it still can't print! (Score:0, Informative)
the pdfs that I export with koffice look exactly like the document on the screen, you should be able to print those anywhere.
LaTeX? (Score:5, Informative)
To be honest I find Word to be a mess. I know some people love it but I find it unusable.
Re:what i'd like to see.. (Score:2, Informative)
Re:Large documents (Score:3, Informative)
It will save you loads of time and grief in the long run. Word documents are fine for 1 page memo's and the like, but if you want a beautiful looking manuscript there is only one option.
I've seen people literally go mad trying to write their thesis in Word once the page count gets high.
Re:Large documents (Score:4, Informative)
And if you don't like the "coding style" of LaTeX, you can use LyX [lyx.org].
Re:KOffice (Score:3, Informative)
Re:ko or ooo? (Score:3, Informative)
Re:Krita (Score:5, Informative)
Yet. Qt4 for Windows is GPL, KDE is moving to Qt4 which means it'll run on Windows eventually. You can still make it happen today with Cygwin, but that's not a consumer-friendly solution. Give it 12 months and you can probably run Krita on Windows.
Try OO.org 2.0 (Score:3, Informative)
Re:Why I'm using KOffice (Score:2, Informative)
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Re:Large documents (Score:2, Informative)
Re:But it still can't print! (Score:3, Informative)
I'm usually really bad at seeing the difference between fonts, and yet, I can say that the text on the left still looks horrible. You can see it most in the word "be".
Re:LaTeX? (Score:5, Informative)
Re:But it still can't print! (Score:3, Informative)
Re:OpenDocument As Default is Great! (Score:5, Informative)
I've moved away from Open Office because of the bloat, so if Koffice skips some of the more obscure parts of the format that Open Office supports, that's okay by me.
Re:MS Word import quality? (Score:2, Informative)
Re:But it still can't print! (Score:3, Informative)
Re:OpenDocument As Default is Great! (Score:3, Informative)
Since KOffice saves in OpenDocument format by default now, I would guess they don't list it as an "import/export filter."
Re:Large documents (Score:3, Informative)
Re:LyX (Score:4, Informative)
I also found a csv2latex application, that would be nice as well.
Thanks!
Re:OpenDocument As Default is Great! (Score:2, Informative)
1. Was this KWord 1.5 or an earlier version? 1.5 has had many fixes for OpenDocument and might very well work if you used an older version in your example.
2. If it WAS 1.5, could you report the bug to bugs.kde.org? If possible, attach the document, as this will make it easier for us to fix the bug.
Last, but not least, don't forget that OpenOffice.org does also contain bugs.
Re:Krita (Score:2, Informative)
Re:Poor table support (Score:3, Informative)
No, we didn't work on Table support very much, we just made it crash less on tables. You, for example, still can't have a table bigger then a page.
Tables will be re-done in 2.0, most probably.