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Thursday, October 17th 2002, 12:44pm

KOffice 1.2

What do you think about the new KOffice 1.2?

I think it's now more stable and a better feeling! More features and a better "to pdf converter"! I like this feature!

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Friday, October 18th 2002, 10:47am

i like it, but if you compile it with gcc 3.2 under mdk9 you get some problems esp. with the pdf-convertor and with the list-mode. but besides that it's very good :)

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Saturday, October 19th 2002, 11:52am

hhmm..I still prefer Openoffice. It has a better GUI (in my opinion) and it handles M$ Files better. Hey, it can convert to pdf? hhm...I think I should give it a try, again..^^" I'm sure this will come handy.
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Monday, October 21st 2002, 11:43pm

i havent tried. I use Star office 6, but considering all of my files are in staroffice format, i cant be bothered as it will be too much of a hassle.

StarOffice is very 'lumbersome' if you will. Not so good in that respect.
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Tuesday, October 22nd 2002, 5:23am

My only problem with the programs KDE offers is that there are at three text and word processors ( Kate, KWord, and KWrite) that I don't even know which to choose. And then I read something about a KVim...
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Tuesday, October 22nd 2002, 8:19pm

"... and it handles M$ Files better..."
Yes, you are right. But we are working hard on better filters.
The word filter is completely rewritten and much more stable than the old, we have an almost feature complete OpenCalc filter (can't handle embedded objects yet), work is going on on other OpenOffice file formats, StarOffice filters and of cause Excel and Powerpoint.
Expect a much better 1.3 release.. But we could need help :-)

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Tuesday, November 5th 2002, 12:55am

KWord MS filter

I'll say the filters could use a little help. My employer sends me pretty basic M$ Word docs from time to time, which feature some in-line JPGs. But KWord will not display them. I have to reboot to Windows resort to M$ WordPad to open and print them. Needless to say, I'd much prefer to use KWord (tried OO.o, but it's a bit piggish and doesn't look good, even downloaded Hancom Office, but in the 6-part download it won't install).

If anyone reading this is affilitated with KOffice group, please tell me that the M$ Word import filter will be fixed in the next rev.
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Tuesday, November 5th 2002, 1:08am

I love KOffice (even though I can get StarOffice for free through Lindows Click and Run), because it is so fast loading.
But I really can't use it as everyday wordprocessor yet, unless they handle .doc, .xls, and .ppt files (MS Office files) better.
For temporary solution, I either use StarOffice, or sometimes MS Office using WINE.
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Tuesday, November 5th 2002, 9:45pm

Re: KWord MS filter

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Original von leftbas

f anyone reading this is affilitated with KOffice group, please tell me that the M$ Word import filter will be fixed in the next rev.


I already did. Right now picture importing ist not supported. But the filter gets better and is already much better than in the 1.2 release. Picture importing is probably the most needed feature (for PPT as well)
But I'm not involved in this.

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Wednesday, November 6th 2002, 5:38am

M$ Word filter

Sorry I missed that, Norbert. :)

Anyhow, I'm glad it's being worked on. However, I checked to see the release schedule and to-do list for KOffice 1.3 (?), but couldn't find anything past 1.2, which of course we already have. If you're not involved in the filter coding, do you have an approximate release date? Or maybe when an alpha or beta will be out with some of the improvements we've been asking for?

Thanks in advance, and keep up the great work - KOffice is a real winner in my book!
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Wednesday, November 6th 2002, 6:20pm

Re: M$ Word filter

No problem :-)
I'm involved in filter coding but I'm working on the Gnumeric, OpenCalc and StarCalc filter and all the rest of KSpread.

We have no release plan right now, we have not even talked about it. Of cause you can everytime pick a snapshot from CVS, but KSpread is pretty much broken right now, because we are switching to the same text component KWord and KPresenter are using.

I don't want to promise anything but there won't be an alpha or anything similar for the next 2 months.
If you want to see the TO-DO lists, go to the CVS repository (e.g. webcvs.kde.org), choose KOffice and go to the seperate applications. You will find TODO-files in each main directory and in the directory of each filter.
Thanks for your nice comments...

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Thursday, November 7th 2002, 4:16pm

openoffice import is important!!!

I love koffice, because it is fast and more beautiful.
BUT: the import and export filters aren't good enough.
*Microsoft word documents load goed (that's good)
*Openoffice documents (writer,impress,...) don't work (not good), and this is very important, i and several people that i know use OpenOffice instead of koffice because of this.
solution: Make sure that in koffice 1.3, the openoffice filters work good (for me openoffice compatibelty is more important than *.doc compatibelty)
But in fact the koffice format should be (from in the beginning) the same as the openoffice format. (standaart) Openoffice is opensource so that can't be hard to make.....(less hard than a *.doc filter).

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Saturday, November 9th 2002, 10:56am

Yes, one format for all open source wordprocessors would quite a thing.

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Thursday, August 28th 2003, 8:18pm

Re: KWord MS filter

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Original von leftbas

I'll say the filters could use a little help. My employer sends me pretty basic M$ Word docs from time to time, which feature some in-line JPGs. But KWord will not display them.


No way of converting the .doc to pdf with a command line tool and go from there?