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KOffice 1.6 Released

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the brand-new-bag dept.

ingwa writes "The KOffice team today released version 1.6 of its office suite. Among other things, this release contains an improved Krita which can now handle color spaces like CMYK. This makes it the only free image editor that can be used in professional pre-press work. Together with the other improvements, this release probably makes it the best free image editor in the world. The release also contains improvements in Kexi, the MS Access like database application, and a new scripting framework which makes it extremely simple to script applications that handle OpenDocument data. With this release KOffice also surpasses OpenOffice.org in some ways, e.g. it handles over 70% of the W3C MathML test suite while Openoffice.org only handles 22%. See the KOffice homepage for more information."

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  1. Kudos to the dev team by Dasher42 · · Score: 5, Informative

    KOffice has been for a long time the contender that has not gotten its due. Like KDE, it is mildly clunky, but quite powerful, and programming things in the C++/Qt/KDE paradigm makes it faster on its feet than OpenOffice. Qt 4.x should make it possible for this suite to make a splash on Windows and OSX too, so this year should be very... interesting.

    1. Re:Kudos to the dev team by nuzak · · Score: 5, Funny

      > KOffice has been for a long time the contender that has not gotten its due.

      I try to give it its due, and have often attempted to compose a praise-filled letter in KOffice, but it keeps crashing before I can finish it.

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  2. Re:Marketer alert? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny
    Does anyone smell a marketing rat trying to push new software? Rather interesting post on the heals of post on the GIMP graphics subsystem.
    Yeah, those greedy KD£ fuckers only care about how much cash they can squeeze out of you for a minor upgrade!
  3. Re:Gnome version? by FishWithAHammer · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Install KDE libraries.

    Shazam.

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