KOffice

KOffice was a free office suite for KDE, which can be compared with OpenOffice.org and Microsoft Office and uses the Open Document Format.

The office suite includes programs for word processing ( KWord ), spreadsheet ( KSpread ), a presentation program ( KPresenter ), flowcharts ( Kivio ) and a vector graphic program ( Karbon14 ). Except kword they should from version 2.4 to operate under the new name.

In the course of splitting the project into KOffice and Calligra Suite programs were for database ( Kexi ), Project management ( KPlato ) and painting and image editing application ( Krita ) away from KOffice and since version 2.4 - sometimes under new names - as part of Calligra developed.

In September 2012, KOffice was terminated without formal notice.

• 2.1 Cleavage of the collection of software and individual applications

Programs

Word processing

KWord is used for word processing and desktop publishing. In word processing program (frame) can be used to place individual components right next to the body text and frames. A special feature is still the ability of word processing PDF documents not only spend but also read and process them to ( Since version 1.3). Depending on the template, the implementation in this case corresponds more or less to the original.

Spreadsheet

KSpread ( future KCells ) is the spreadsheet of the package. You can also build complex mathematical formulas and statistics in addition to the creation of tables.

Presentation

KPresenter ( future Showcase ) presentations with pictures, effects can be created with paging and animations.

Drawings

Karbon14 ( future artwork ) is the vector graphics program of KOffice.

Flowcharts

Kivo is a program for drawing flowcharts. It was originally developed by the company theKompany and found later under the GNU General Public License. After this step, it was a component of KOffice.

History

Your early took over the development of KOffice 1997 KPresenter; KWord followed 1998. 1999 mentioned a former Microsoft employee KOffice at a large civil litigation, the U.S. has strained against the Group, as an example of competitive products ranging from office applications. 2000 was the first official release as part of KDE 2.0, followed in 2001 and 2002, 1.1 version 1.2.

Since the KOffice version 1.4 dated 21 June 2005, the files created can be saved ( OASIS ), which are also used by OpenOffice.org or LibreOffice in the open XML formats of the Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards. This is to simplify the exchange of data. Version 1.4 of KOffice took advantage of the new format is not standard, because support for it was not yet mature and comprehensive enough. Since the published on 11 April 2006 Version 1.5 OpenDocument formats will be used as default when saving files.

After about three years of development, appeared in May 2009, the first release of version 2.0, which is based on Qt4 and KDE Platform 4 and also runs on Windows and Mac OS X. This version has been completely redesigned, and it represented a development and testing version, which still lacked some features and that has not been recommended for end users. Thus, the version 2.0 was similar to understand the first KDE4 versions rather than a backbone and a preview of future versions. No function equality was achieved with version 1.6 with version 2.1 yet. The first stable KOffice 2, which is also suitable for end-users, was 2.2 and was published on 28 May 2010, with this version was also Kexi, the integrated database, taken after three years of development in KOffice 2. Since version 2.2 reading support for Microsoft's XML -based file format Office Open XML is included.

Elimination of the collection of software and individual applications

After a long-running dispute with KWord developer, Thomas Zander, the rest of the development team on 6 December 2010 announced that KOffice is to be split off as of version 2.4 in Calligra Suite. This should primarily reflect the value of the software as a technology platform. With the renaming of the whole package, a renaming of individual components is associated. KSpread will be renamed tables, KPresenter in Stage Kivio in flow and KPlato in plan. KWord was spun off to a new application called Words.

The 2.3 series of KOffice has been maintained by the Calligra team. The development of KOffice 2.4 was virtually alone run after cleavage by Thomas Zander, who had in turn received, in addition to the development of KWord derivatives of KSpread KPresenter and Karbon14 under new names in the development release of KOffice 2.4. All other KOffice 2.3 components have been removed without replacement.

In September 2012, the KOffice development has been discontinued and replaced with a placeholder website. In October 2012 KOffice has been removed from the KDE Quality Website Tools.