KOffice
KOffice was a free office suite for the K Desktop Environment (KDE). All its components have been released under free software/open source licenses. The last version of KOffice is 2.3.3, which was released on February 23, 2011.[7]
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| KPresenter 2.3.png KPresenter 2.3 screenshot | |
| Original author(s) | KDE, Reginald Stadlbauer |
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| Developer(s) | KDE, Thomas Zander (maintainer)[1] |
| Initial release | 23 October 2000[2] |
| Written in | C++[3] |
| Operating system | Unix-like, Windows |
| Platform | Qt, KDE Platform |
| Size | 72.2 MiB (compressed source code)[4] |
| Available in | 27 languages[5] |
| Type | Office suite |
| License | GPL, LGPL |
| Website | koffice.org (Redirects to calligra.org)[6] |
KOffice is primarily designed for Unix operating systems, but in the future there will likely be a Microsoft Windows and native Mac OS X version of all the applications.[8]
KOffice applications uses OpenDocument as their native file format when possible.
The suite is released separately from KDE and can be downloaded at the KOffice homepage.
KOffice components
KOffice includes the following components:
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KWord | A word processor with style sheets and frame-support for DTP-style editing of complex layouts. |
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KSpread | A spreadsheet application with multiple sheet support, templates and more than 100 mathematical formulas. |
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KPresenter | A presentation program with image and effect support. |
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Kivio | A programmable flowchart drawing program with dynamically loadable stencils. Developed by theKompany, which offers additional (non-free) stencils for sale. |
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Karbon14 | A vector drawing application with a variety of drawing and editing tools. |
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Krita | (Formerly known as Krayon and KImageshop). A bitmap graphics manipulation program, primarily designed as a painting program, with some image processing features. |
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Kugar and KChart | Integrated report and chart generators. |
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KFormula | An integrated mathematical formula editor. |
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Kexi | An integrated data management application, designed as a Microsoft Access or FileMaker competitor. It can be used for designing and implementing databases, inserting and processing data and performing queries. It has limited compatibility with the MS Access file format. |
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KPlato | A project management application that can create Gantt-style charts. |
KOffice includes import filters for some file formats provided by competitors.
KOffice Media
Experimental port of KOffice 2.1 to Haiku
The viewer for smartphones was dropped from KOffice.
KWord logo
KSpread logo
KPresenter Application Logo
- KexiApplicationLogo
Karbon14 logo
Krita logo
KChart logo
KFormula logo
References
- ↑ KOffice Overview (in en)KDE. Retrieved 2012-05-01.
- ↑ KDE 2.0 Release Announcement (23 October 2000)KDE. Retrieved 1 May 2012.
- ↑ SVAKSHA. KDE-Koffice seeks code contributors (in en) (2010-09-07). Retrieved 2013-09-20.
- ↑ KDE Archive Mirrorlist /Attic/koffice-2.3.3/koffice-2.3.3.tar.bz2 (in en). download.kde.org (2011-02-23). Retrieved 2022-01-19.
- ↑ KOffice v2.3.1 (in en) (2011-01-21)Ithov.com. Retrieved 2013-09-19.
- ↑ KOffice.org (in en). Retrieved 2011-08-08.
- ↑ Mirrorlist /Attic/koffice-2.3.3/koffice-2.3.3.tar.bz2. download.kde.org. Retrieved 2024-03-24.
- ↑ Open Letter to Alan Yates of Microsoft (in en). KDE.news (2005-09-24). Retrieved 2024-03-24.