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KOffice 1.4.2 has been reelased:



The KDE Project today announced the release of KOffice 1.4.2 for Linux and Unix operating systems. Support for the OpenDocument format, recently adopted by Massachusetts state in the USA, has been greatly improved, especially in KWord, KSpread and KPresenter. Karbon, a vector-based drawing program, has also seen a lot of development lately, and many fixes have gone into it.

David Faure, core developer, said "with good support for the OpenDocument format we can offer users a lightweight and integrated alternative to OpenOffice. KOffice also sports a number of unique features, such as being able to open and edit PDFs in KWord."

KOffice is the most comprehensive office suite in existence, whilst also be
ing light-weight and fast. It provides a variety of filters to interoperate wit
h other popular office suites such as OpenOffice.org and Microsoft Office. It is developed as part of the KDE Project.
KOffice 1.4.2