Although this is a maintenance release, there are some new features in
Krita (new filters and a smudge paint operation) and Kexi (a new User
Mode to deploy Kexi applications). Many bugs were fixed.
Since this is a maintenance release, only two of the components,
Krita and Kexi, added new features.
* New Krita Feature and Many Bugfixes
Krita, the image editing application of KOffice has gotten a new Color
Level filter. Among the bugfixes can be mentioned the wrong warning
telling the user that unsharp mask filter didn't work even though it did.
* New Kexi Features and Many Bugfixes
Kexi, the desktop database application competing with MS Access, is the
other application in KOffice that got new features in this release. Among
them can be mentioned a new combo box taking advantage of the database
relationships, and parameter queries. These features developed as an answer
to user's demand, will make programming database solutions much easier.
* Security Fix in Powerpoint Import Filter
There is a security issue in the import filter for Powerpoint .ppt files
that is fixed with this release.
* Bugfixes For Most Other Components
This release is mostly a feature release of Krita and Kexi, but also
contains major enhancements to the OpenDocument and MathML support of
KFormula and new scripting functionality. This version also contains
a vastly improved version of KPlato, the project planning application.
Major Improvements in this release are:
* Improved OASIS OpenDocument Support, especially in KSpread
* Rotating large images and scaling of images now works correctly in Krita
* Various other bugfixes
Known issues:
* Two issues with Kexi forms. Forms may not appear in Kexi (1.0.0 version
was affected as well). No existing data or design can be lost, though.
SUSE and Debian packages are not affected. Please read the details.
* Krita crashes when saving an image containing exif information to .kra
twice
This version sports OpenDocument as the default file format,
accessibility, a new project planning tool KPlato, professional color
support and adjustment layers in Krita and the long awaited Kexi 1.0.
This release is a bugfix release, which means that no new features have
been added. However, it contains many bugfixes, and we would like to
highlight the following:
* Improved OASIS OpenDocument Support
The support for the OpenDocument format has been greatly improved,
especially in KWord, KSpread and KPresenter. In particular, care has
been taken to insure better interoperability with the new release
candidate of Open Office 2.0.
* Major Improvement of Karbon, the vector application
Karbon has seen a flurry of development lately, and many fixes have
gone into it. [although karbon still fails to run on NetBSD and OpenBSD]
also fixes the security issue described in
http://www.kde.org/info/security/advisory-20051011-1.txt
Changes (from 1.4.0a some already in 1.4.0b)
KOfficeCore:
* OASIS loading/saving fix for embedded objects
* Fix crash when pressing Quit in the initial startup dialog
* Fix the handling of Automatically select filename extension when
directory was selected
KOffice UI:
* Fix typing a URL in startup dialog and clicking OK; the URL
wasn't loaded
* Fix "Always start X with this template" behaving as if it was checked
when it wasn't
KOffice Workspace:
* Has an icon, finally :)
KWord
* Fix crash when updating a TOC with a table inside it
* Fixes for OASIS OpenDocument support
KPresenter
* Fix painting shadows of all 2D shapes
* Fixed "copy-page has a little offset for embedded objects"
* OASIS OpenDocument fixes for polyline, polygon and regular-polygon
KSpread
* Fix crash related to obscured cells in rendering code
Krita
* Fix bugs
* Move the layers palette to the control box docker, so there's one
docker less on screen
* Add shortcut keys for many more actions (Thanks to Alan)
* Various performance optimizations
* On selecting the crop tool when there is a selections present, crop
* Crop layer on double click
* Improved .psd loading
Kexi
* Fix compilation using gcc on some platforms
* Fix crash on startup when Kexi is started from K Menu
* Form widgets: shadow in label widgets is properly set for altered
indenting, margins and alignment
The principal improvements over KOffice 1.3 are:
* Krita: Krita is an image editor and paint application with a wide
range of applications, from photo editing to the creation of original
artwork. Sporting a clear and uncluttered interface (for a paint
app...) it makes the features it delivers accessible and intuitive to
use.
This is the first public release of Krita and while it provides a
coherent set of features, it is only the first stepping stone towards
a flexible paint application for artists and image editors.
* Kexi. KOffice 1.4 is the first official release to include Kexi. Kexi
is an integrated environment for creating and managing databases. It
can be used for creating database schemas; inserting data; performing
queries, and processing data. Forms can be created to provide a custom
interface to your data. All database objects - tables, queries and
forms - are stored in the database, making it easy to share databases.
Kexi is considered as a long awaited Open Source competitor for
MS Access, Filemaker and Oracle Forms. Its development is motivated by
the lack of Rapid Application Development (RAD) tools for database
systems that are sufficiently powerful, inexpensive, open standards
driven and portable across many OSes and hardware platforms.
* OASIS OpenDocument support: Most KOffice applications now support the
OASIS OpenDocument file format. KOffice developer David Faure is part
of the OASIS technical committee and was able to participate in the
discussions that led to the creation of this standard file format.
* KWord (Word Processor):
o rewritten spell-checking support which is much faster and solves
many problems (e.g. KOffice-1.3's right-click-menu sometimes
hanging); with aspell, spell-checking is available in more than
70 languages.
o word completion with tooltip;
o a new WordPerfect import filter, based on an external library, libwpd;
* KPresenter (Presentation Tool):
o a master page concept;
o reworked dialogs (property editor, object and page effects); and
o customizable slide order and selection for slide show.
* KSpread (Spreadsheet):
o Support for right-to-left spreadsheets;
o much improved value parsing and formatting;
o a calendar plug-in;
o additional options for cell validity, 5 new functions, and
o a new Microsoft Excel import filter.
* KChart (Graph and chart drawing tool):
o New, much improved, data editor;
o linear or logarithmic scale;
o printing support;
o support for data as rows or columns; and
o export to PNG and SVG formats.
* Kivio (Flow-charting application):
o New stencils: Nassi Schneiderman;
o a docker for adding stencils to the document;
o a tool for adding connector targets to stencils; and
o a poly-line connector.
Changes:
KOffice Libraries
KOfficeUI
* Compile again with Qt 3.1
KPresenter
* Compile again with KDE 3.1
* Fix crash in history of group/ungroup commands
* Fix loading and saving of picture objects marked "sticky"
KSpread
* Make the Control-C key work again
* Make columns and rows that are not on the top-left side of a sheet
sizable again.
* Fix painting of the gridlines, when a row or column is resized.
KChart
* Fix pressing Enter in the Data Editor
Filters
KWord's OpenOffice.org Writer Export Filter
* Fix auto-justification
KWord's RTF Import Filter
* Temporary fix to avoid empty font names
KWord's PDF Import Filter
* SECURITY: fix the integer overflow vulnerability
* Fix for compiling with --enable-final
KPresenter's OpenOffice.org Impress Export Filter
* In formulas, convert the decimal symbol used by the locale
KFormula's MathML Import Filter
* Make the import filter work again
KFormula's MathML Export Filter
* Fix the invisible multiply operator
All library names listed by *.la files no longer need to be listed
in the PLIST, e.g., instead of:
lib/libfoo.a
lib/libfoo.la
lib/libfoo.so
lib/libfoo.so.0
lib/libfoo.so.0.1
one simply needs:
lib/libfoo.la
and bsd.pkg.mk will automatically ensure that the additional library
names are listed in the installed package +CONTENTS file.
Also make LIBTOOLIZE_PLIST default to "yes".
KOffice Libraries
KOfficeCore:
* Give the backup file the same permissions as the original file
* Save window settings also when using File/Close
KOfficeUI:
* Improved unit widgets
KoText library features (shared between KWord and KPresenter):
* Changing a style in the style manager remembered a wrong "following style",
so later changes in the style manager wouldn't propagate correctly
* Fixed wrong position of suffix in numbered right-to-left paragraphs
* Fixed formatting bug, where an inline formula or any other big character
after the paragraph counter, would make the paragraph counter disappear
* Fixed wrong alignment when using numbered paragraphs and a tab as first
character
* Added newParagraph DCOP call (see this short howto)
KWord
* Fixed wrong printing of frame borders due to excessive clipping
* Turning off the "Create backup file" option now works.
KPresenter
* Fixed crash in infinite loop presentation mode when first slide is not shown
* Fixed show the duration for the correct page if not all slides are shown
* Fixes for vertical alignment of text inside text objects.
* Fixed bug export web presentation into network
* Turning off the "Create backup file" option now works.
KSpread
* Fix condition cell attribute (multi condition)
* Fix (KSpread SEXDEC parse error)
* Fix enable/disable action into validation dialogbox
* Fix disable/enable "show table" menu item
* Fix crash when viewing a KSpread document in Konqueror
KChart
* Fix crash bug
Karbon
* Fixed bug "Unable to close or fill bezier curves"
* Fixed bug "new objects do not appear immediately in layers list"
* Fixed bug "changing zoom setting freezes application"
Filters
KWord's RTF import filter:
* Avoid crashing if more cells are defined than declared on a row
* Allow ampersands in font names
KPresenter's OOImpress import filter:
* Import rotate object
* Fix load end/start line
* Import hide/show slide
* Import randow page effect
* Import duration slide transition
* Import sticky objects
* Fix allow to load template file
* Fix import background style
KPresenter's OOImpress export filter:
* Export polygone/polyline object
* Export pie/chord/arc object
* Export rotate object
* Export object name
* Export picture object
KSpread's OOCalc import filter:
* Import support for protect document
* Fix import template document
* Import load print attribute
* Import validation attribute
* Import column width
* Import text indent
* Fix import note with multiline
KSpread's OOCalc export filter:
* Fix export header/footer
* Export print range
* Fix export don't print cell
Karbon's EPS filter:
* Fix parsing of boundingbox in the presence of "%ALDBoundingBox"
Changes:
KOfficeCore:
* Changed .desktop file setup so that changes to the K menu structure, to
file-program associations, or other distribution customizations cannot
prevent KOffice applications from starting.
* Fixed parsing of number+unit, due to change in Qt 3.3. Fixes problems
when opening OOWriter documents in particular.
* Don't show the filter dialog when generating thumbnails
* Improved error handling to catch "partition full" problems.
KOfficeUI:
* Fix overwriting of templates
* Fix loading icons when creating templates
* Allow template icons up to 64x64 instead of 60x60 and scale better if
too big
KoText library features (shared between KWord and KPresenter):
* Date variables for printing-date, last-modified, and creation-date were
not loaded correctly.
* Background spellchecking works again
* Fixed crash during background spellchecking (refcounting of formats)
* Fixed race condition during background spellchecking (leading to
misplaced red underlines)
* Repaint paragraph after bg spell checking, in all cases (errors or not),
otherwise newly-added-to-the-dictionary words were still red-underlined
* Fixed hyphenation checkbox not correctly set in font dialog
* Fixed wrong hyphenation in many cases, due to wrong word sent to
hyphenation engine
* Font dialog usability: turn radiobuttons superscript/subscript into
checkboxes to make it possible to deactivate both.
* Usability in style dialog: when creating a new style, select it as the
'next style' for itself
* Allow decimal values in "multiple" (proportional) linespacing.
* Fixed wrong left margin on multiline paragraphs with a counter.
KWord
* Fixed "add bookmark" for the case where there's no selection
* Keep bookmark valid after deleting its paragraph
* Usability improvements in "select bookmark" dialog
* Fixed drawing of borders for copied frames (e.g. header/footers)
* Fixed "text doesn't immediately run around copied frame on new page"
* Fixed crash when activating text view mode and there's no text frameset
* Allow to save custom shortcuts for 'insert variable' actions
* Fixed crash when undoing a paste action
* Fixed crash related to tables and deleting frames
* Fixed crash when pasting plain text over a selection
* Fixed wrong conversion of values in config dialog when switching units
KPresenter
* Fixed possible crash in presentation mode if not all slides are shown
* Fixed wrong clipping of fullscreen presentation
* Fixed show the duration for the correct page if not all slides are shown
* Fixed crash in infinite loop presentation mode when first slide is not
shown
* Fixed speed of automatic presentation (it was reversed)
* Fixed wrong positioning of text when using "Vertical Alignment"
* Fixed redrawing of lines in drawing mode in case of a repaint event
* Save HTML Slideshow export settings does not add extension to filenames
* If a page is shown more than once during a presentation, add the time
for the duration instead of showing only the last duration.
KSpread
* undo not working after deleting multiple cells
* fixed crash when opening a file over the network
Kivio
* Add missing code to make the 'Crop picture to edges' option in the page
export dialog work.
* Fixed painting bug when moving stencils containing text.
* Add boundaries to the zoom to prevent lockups and crashes.
based on koffice-devel package updated to latest version by me.
The principal improvements over KOffice 1.2 are:
KWord (Word Processor).
* support for automatic hyphenation;
* a new MS Word import filter;
* support for pictures, tables and footnotes in the RTF export filter
(which has been re-written);
* support for pictures and footnotes in the LaTeX export filter;
* a new MS Write export filter and a re-written MS Write import filter;
* support for bookmarks;
* text sorting;
* new character attributes, such as word-by-word underlining and relative
font sizes; and
* improved spell checking (selection only; ignore words; etc.).
KPresenter (Presentation Tool).
* support for automatic hyphenation;
* an improved slide transition dialog, featuring a preview of the slide
effect;
* drawing images with alpha channels;
* customizable printing of slide notes; and
* improved HTML export as well as usability enhancements to the HTML export
wizard.
KSpread (Spreadsheet).
* over 100 new formulas (date/time, math, statistical, financial and more);
* an OpenCalc import and export filter;
* a new LaTeX export filter;
* enhancements to the CSV import and export options;
* new date and time formats;
* a subtotal dialog and formula; and
* default cell styles.
Kugar / Kugar Designer (Business Reporting).
* redesigned to better integrate into the KOffice environment;
* enhanced handling of items in the designer (cut / copy / paste;
undo / redo; manual z-ordering; etc.);
* support for printing reports from the command line / scripts; and
* a DCOP interface.
Changes are:
Framework
- Startup notification activated for all KOffice applications
- Applications are ready for a future renaming of their native mimetype
name (more IANA compliant)
- Fixed loading of embedded kontour documents
- Refuse to load embedded documents with remote URL (e.g. http) for
security reasons
- "Skip" button in Find/Replace dialog works as intended with the
Backwards option
KOffice Workspace
- Fixed multiple confirmation requests when closing with an unsaved
document
KWord
- Famous bug "all letters squashed together when printing" fixed
- Undo/redo fixes for frame creation
- Fixed printing from preview mode
- Fixed slowness related to clipboard (e.g. when pasting text)
- Fixed crash on Ctrl+K at end of paragraph
- Fixed crash when hiding headers or footers (which contains a
variable)
- Transform into normal frame when copying header or footer
- Fixed charset conversion issue for "personal expressions"
- Save all frames, even for the main frameset, so that borders etc.
are kept
- Allow to insert GIF images
- Fixed applying a format change (e.g. new font family) to a selection
- Insert Frame Break at cursor position
- Make the document readonly during a search/replace or a spellcheck
- Fixed crash when undoing a format change, due to cursor positionned
too far right
KSpread
- Search/replace is now useful (highlights the current matching cell)
- Search/replace looks for cells in proper order (top-left to bottom-
right)
- Corruption when saving dates fixed
KChart
- KChart can load and save data again
- New type of chart: Polar (use wizard to enable this)
- Various fixes and UI improvements
The following features have been reactivated:
- setting a background color
- changing the grid color
- hiding and showing the grid
- hiding and showing the legend
- modifying the title of the legend
- modifying the x-axis labels
- adding one or two header and/or a footer text with user defined fonts
and color settings
Filters
- Translations were not used by many filters (for dialogs and error messages)
Davies <mark@mcs.vuw.ac.nz> with changes by me. Pkgsrc-related changes
include:
* Strongly buildlinkifying.
* Using qt2-designer-kde for a uic that understands KDE2 widgets.
* Fixing sources to compile with egcs-1.1.2's much-less-than-compliant
C++ compiler.
Given the rapid development between the 1.0 and 1.1 releases, plus the
scope of the applications in the suite, it's difficult to summarize the
changes. The major change is that KIllustrator is now named Kontour
for trademark reasons. Aside from that, basically everything is more
featureful and more stable, plus there are more import/export filters for
other application suites.
