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KOffice 1.6 RC1

KDE Ships Release Candidate of Major Enhancements to Free Integrated Office Suite

September 27, 2006 (The INTERNET). The KDE Project today announced the immediate release of KOffice 1.6-RC1, the first release candidate for KOffice 1.6, scheduled for release this October.

KOffice is an integrated office suite for KDE which utilizes free and open standards for its document formats, component communication and component embedding. This release is principally a public testing and developer solicitation release, and is definitely not intented for anything but testing. Help is welcome!
Scripting support in KSpread
This release includes:

* a frame-based, full-featured word processor (KWord);
* a spreadsheet application (KSpread);
* a presentation application (KPresenter);
* a flowchart application (Kivio);
* an integrated database application (Kexi);
* a new project management application (KPlato).
* a pixel based image editing and paint application (Krita);
* a vector-drawing application (Karbon14).

Additionally, KOffice includes robust embeddable objects:

* business quality reporting software (Kugar)
* full-featured charting engine (KChart)
* mathematical formula handling (KFormula)

as well as a built-in thesaurus (KThesaurus) and support for many different file formats.

KOffice and all its components (including KDE) are available for free under Open Source licenses from the KDE http and ftp mirrors.
Highlights

The main energy of the KOffice developement team is currently focused on the revolutionary 2.0 version that will be based on KDE 4 and Qt 4. The 1.6 release is intended mainly as a feature release for the two fastest developed components: Krita and Kexi. However, other components are being developed too. Here are the highligts of this preview of KOffice 1.6

Lots of new features in Krita and Kexi
OpenDocument support in KFormula
Scripting support in KSpread

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