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KOffice 1.1.1 Ships

Posted by timothy on from the actually-you-download-it dept.

Dre writes: "The KOffice team has announced the release of KOffice 1.1.1. It's mainly a performance, printing fixes (particularly in KWord) and stability release, but see the ChangeLog for the full scoop. Lots of binary packages are listed in the announcement this time. The dot is suggesting this might be the last KOffice release before KDE 3.0, which is almost on track for a late-February stable release (the first beta is being released this week)."

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  1. KWord can be a good rival to Framemaker /Publisher by deadmantalking · · Score: 5, Informative

    I may be talking off my head here, but the last time i saw KWord, it looked like it was inspored by Framemaker. As a technical Writer, Framemaker is the word processor of choice to use, Word does not even come close. Abiword and the word processor shipped with StarOffice are also aimed at the general user, not someone who creates long complex documents for a living.
    KWord was a pleasant surprise, then. With KOffice 1.0, it was not ready for primetime use, but the direction it was headed showed that it will sooner or later make it easy for people like me to switch from the pain of FM (yes, it may be the best in the world for tech editing, but it still sucks royally) to something better.

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  2. Re:KWord can be a good rival to Framemaker /Publis by NightWhistler · · Score: 3, Informative

    Personally I still prefer LyX for large technical documents... I'm nearing the end of my internship now, and I've written all my reports in it. I'll be using it for my end paper as well...

    OK, it absolutely took some getting used to, but once I got the hang of it I was suprised at how easy it was to create good looking documents... Most free Office utilities try to mimic the behaviour of commercial applications, while in my opinion the strong point of Linux is the fact that it takes a different approach... on that works...

    Same thing goes for document formatting... LyX with LaTex as it's backend may be different from commerical apps, it works like a charm, and I'm definately never going back to the pain of WYSIWYG word processors...

    I have spoken! ;-)

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  3. Re:Powerpoint files? by gregfortune · · Score: 2, Informative

    They couldn't save their documents in Powerpoint 97, could they? I'm pretty sure Powerpoint 2000 will save in the 97 compatible format if you don't use any features requiring the 2000 format... I know Word and Excel both function in this manner.

  4. Re:It's about time! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Informative
    > This is why if layout is important, people need to
    > use a layout-centric file format like PDF. Open source
    > programmers need to decide on a file format for word
    > processing, and if they're not going to use PDF (an
    > open specification, albeit controlled by Adobe), then
    > they should invent an alternative. XML is great for content,
    > but like HTML and SGML there's really no layout data,
    > which can be important for many documents. Perhaps some
    > type of style-sheets over XML? I've been really impressed
    > with PDF v1.3, but are there (more) open alternatives?

    Yup, XML describes the data, but I would have a look at http://www.w3.org/Style/XSL/. xsl:fo can do a lot of magic ;-)

    /AC

  5. Re:It's about time! by 4im · · Score: 2, Informative

    XML is great for content,

    Perhaps some type of style-sheets over XML?

    You mean something like XSL/XSLT? Why not just get MS to switch to the open file format of OpenOffice?Good luck trying, anyway.

  6. Re:It's about time! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Informative

    For those wondering, XSL:FO is a simplistic PDF-a-like that is suitable for most tasks. From there you can pass it to an XSL:FO viewer (few exist) or convert it to a PDF (this is the bit I like).

  7. Re:Solution to the eternal document-format-problem by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Informative
    Yes, quite possible.

    The company I work for has a service whereby you upload an MSWord document and we run it through Office 2002 > XML > HTML. Due to the overheard of word this takes about 8 seconds but we spit out perfect XHTML with ALT tags and internal links - big w00ps indeed.

    I suspect that Microsoft have realised this though. As the only other format that can replicate the same exact same features as Word is RTF and Office 2002 will bloat RTF (as I said in another post, above).

    The difficulty is telling users that other formats won't look exactly the same. All formats aren't completely compatible (there is a large overlapping feature set in most). Accepting that it's only going to be pretty close is where the problem is (and deciding another format to put it to).

    Openoffice can open any MS Word document that I've seen to a relative degree of accuracy.