[dot] KOffice 2.0 Alpha 8

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From: Cyrille Berger <>
Dept: hackerbuero
Date: Thursday 12/Jun/2008, @02:16

KOffice 2.0 Alpha 8
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   The KDE Project today announced the eighth alpha release of KOffice 2
[http://www.koffice.org/releases/2.0alpha8-release.php], a technology
preview of the upcoming version 2.0. Work continues in the same vein as
before, with a strong focus on finishing and polishing our new features
that will set KOffice.  This is a work in progress, showing the changes
that have been made over the last month by the KOffice developers. Most
features that will be part of the final release are present now, and bug
reports are welcome for the more stable components.


  I. OPENDOCUMENT IMPROVEMENTS

     One of the highlights of this release is the work on saving and
loading Open  Document Format documents, especially for the text shape,
thanks to the sponsoring of Girish Ramakrishnan by the Dutch NLNet
organisation [http://www.nlnet.nl]. Girish has added scores of tests to
check for ODF compliancy.

     It is also worthy of note that now KOffice is able to load and save
images in  text and presentation documents. Shapes can now be animated
and associated with events such as sounds.


 II. MULTIPLATFORM

     Importantly, for the first time, KOffice is released simultaneously
for the  three main platforms: Unix/X11, Windows and Mac OSX. KOffice is
the only office suite that is available for all three platforms using a
single codebase.


III. EARLY TESTERS

     While KOffice applications, generally speaking, are not ready for
bugs reports, some applications are more ready than others. The
developers of KSpread, Krita, Karbon and the report component of Kexi
welcome user feedback. The season is open for bug reporting!