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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 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.