KOffice

KOffice

KWord screenshot
Developer(s)	The KOffice Team
Initial release	1998
Stable release	2.1 / 2009-11-24; 6 days ago[1]
Written in	C++ (Qt, KDELibs)
Operating system	Linux ,Windows and MacOS
Platform	Cross-platform
Available in	Multilanguage
Development status	Active
Type	Office suite
License	GPL, LGPL, BSD license and others
Website	www.koffice.org

KOffice is a cross-platform office suite built on the KDE platform. All its components are released under free software/open source licenses and use OpenDocument as their native file format when possible. The latest version of KOffice is 2.2, which was released on November 24, 2009. KOffice is released separately from KDE and can be downloaded at the KOffice homepage.

KOffice 2.0

The current KOffice 2.0 series is primarily designed for POSIX-compliant operating systems, but has also added compatibility for Mac OS X^[2] and Windows.^[3] In addition, KOffice is undergoing a large overhaul to use Flake and Pigment as much as possible within applications. KOffice developers plan to share as much infrastructure as possible between applications to reduce bugs and improve the user experience.^[4] They also want to create an OpenDocument library for use in other KDE applications that will allow developers to easily add support for reading and outputting OpenDocument files to their applications.^[5] Automating tasks and extending the suite with custom functionality can be done with D-Bus or with scripting languages like Python, Ruby, and JavaScript.^[6]

While version 2.0 is the current stable release of KOffice, the KOffice development team recommends end users continue using version 1.6.x until the release of KOffice 2.1 or 2.2:

This release is mainly aimed at developers, testers and early adopters. It is not aimed at end users, and we do not recommend Linux distributions to package it as the default office suite yet.

KOffice 2.0 will be useful for some users, but since it is the first release in a long series it is likely to contain bugs and incompatibilities.

It is noteworthy that KOffice 2.0 does not have all the features that KOffice 1.6 had. These features will return in the upcoming versions 2.1 and 2.2, in most cases better implemented and more efficient. Also, not all applications which were part of KOffice 1.6 made it into KOffice 2.0. The missing applications will return in 2.1 or possibly 2.2.

—KOffice 2.0 release announcement, http://www.koffice.org/2009/05/koffice-200-released/

KOffice components

KOffice includes the following components:

	KWord	A word processor with style sheets and frame-support for DTP-style editing of complex layouts.
	KSpread	A spreadsheet application with multiple sheet support, templates and more than 100 mathematical formulas.
	KPresenter	A presentation program with image and effect support.
	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.
	Kivio	A programmable flowchart drawing program with dynamically loadable stencils. Developed by theKompany, which offers additional (non-free) stencils for sale.
	Karbon14	A vector drawing application with a variety of drawing and editing tools.
	Krita	(Formerly known as Krayon and KImageshop). A bitmap graphics manipulation program, primarily designed as a painting program, with some image processing features.
	Kugar and KChart	Integrated report and chart generators.
	KFormula	An integrated mathematical formula editor.
	KPlato	A project management application that can create Gantt-style charts.

KOffice includes import filters for some file formats provided by competitors.

See also

• Comparison of office suites
• List of office suites

References

External links

Free software portal

• KOffice website
• #koffice
• KOffice mailinglist
• First look: KOffice 1.5
  • Part 1: The major applications
  • Part 2: The minor applications