From:	 David Faure <faure@kde.org>
To:	 kde-announce@kde.org
Subject: KOffice 1.1beta1 Released
Date:	 Wed, 25 Apr 2001 00:03:53 +0100


                    KOFFICE SUITE BETA RELEASED FOR LINUX

KDE, THE LEADING LINUX DESKTOP, SHIPS BETA OF KOFFICE SUITE

April 24, 2001 (The INTERNET). The KDE Project (http://www.kde.org/) today
announced the highly-anticipated release of KOffice 1.1beta1.
KOffice (http://www.koffice.org/) is an integrated office suite for KDE
which utilizes open standards for component communication and component
embedding. The primary goals of the the release are to provide a preview
of KOffice 1.1 and to involve users who wish to request missing features
or report problems. Code development is currently focused on stabilizing
KOffice 1.1, scheduled for final release this summer.

This release includes the following components: KWord (a frame-based,
full-featured word processor); KPresenter (a presentation application);
KSpread (a spreadsheet application); KIllustrator (a vector-drawing
application); Krayon (a bitmap image editor); Kivio (a flowchart
application); KChart (a chart drawing application); KFormula (a formula
editor); Kugar (a tool for generating business quality reports); and filters
(for importing/exporting documents).

While the entire release is designated as a beta release, individual
components are all at various stages of development, which is indicated next
to each component's description below. Changes to individual KOffice
components are also enumerated below. In addition, a list of changes
(http://www.koffice.org/announcements/changelog-1.1.phtml) and a
FAQ about KOffice (http://www.koffice.org/faq/) are available at the
KOffice website.

KOffice and all its components are available for free under Open Source
licenses from the KDE server (http://ftp.kde.org/) and its mirrors
(http://www.kde.org/mirrors.html). As a result of the dedicated efforts
of hundreds of translators, KOffice 1.1beta1 is available in 25 languages.

The complete press release, including a description of the KOffice
components and a change log, is available at http://dot.kde.org/988151496/.

-- 
David FAURE, david@mandrakesoft.com, faure@kde.org
http://perso.mandrakesoft.com/~david/, http://www.konqueror.org/
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