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.
The first four patches come directly from KDE's cvs for
KOFFICE_1_2_BRANCH. The patch-ae comes from a KDE bug report. I
did not bump the revision, because no features changed -- this just
makes it build on some platforms that couldn't build before. It
is said that these fixes use a non-standard C++ header and maybe
may not work with some compilers.
USE_GCC2 or USE_GCC3 where appropriate.
the functionality of the old gcc.buildlink2.mk has been rolled into
compiler.mk now, which is automatically used.
more changes to come later...
KOffice 1.2.1 is a stability release, with the principal improvements over
KOffice 1.2, released last September, occurring in the spreadsheet program
(KSpread).
build when building koffice. Worse, if someone has installed libart2 for
some other reason then koffice will fail to build from that point on.
Perhaps a proper fix would be to change the pkgsrc system to allow for lines
like these to be added only if necessary but that is a much bigger project.
21th October 2002 - Fix available for KSpread's crash
A fix is available for kspread's crashes when working with long text
which overlaps several cells or when working with merged cells.
generalise the linker flags used to export symbols by setting them on
a per-OS basis.
> many packages force -Wl,-export-dynamic which is not portable outside GNU ld
> and cause problems e.g. on Solaris. some of these packages use if
> conditionals either only for NetBSD or except SunOS, but the state is not
> coherent and it may complicate later when support for new OS is added to
> pkgsrc (e.g. ongoing work on HP-UX support).
>
> jlam proposed the following framework in discussion on tech-pkg:
>
> http://mail-index.netbsd.org/tech-pkg/2002/06/21/0009.html
>
> now, ${EXPORT_SYMBOLS_LDFLAGS} is used instead of directly defining
> -Wl,-export-dynamic which is set in appropriate defs.*.mk to reasonable
> values. packages should be converted to this framework by:
>
> 1) replacing LDFLAGS+= -Wl,-export-dynamic and LIBS+= -export-dynamic with:
>
> LDFLAGS+= ${EXPORT_SYMBOLS_LDFLAGS}
>
> 2) for use in patchfiles, add this variable to MAKE_ENV if needed:
>
> MAKE_ENV+= EXPORT_SYMBOLS_LDFLAGS=${EXPORT_SYMBOLS_LDFLAGS}
>
> 3) replace occurances of -Wl,-export-dynamic and -export-dynamic in patch
> files with:
>
> $(EXPORT_SYMBOLS_LDFLAGS)
all dependencies on packages depending on "png" which contain shared
libraries, all for the (imminent) update to the "png" package.
[List courtesy of John Darrow, courtesy of "bulk-build".]
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.
