Office Suites

This chapter contains applications that bundle all the essential needs of everyday office workers into one neat 'little' package. The benefits are a consistent user interface and cooperation between applications.

KOffice-1.3.5

Introduction to KOffice

KOffice is the integrated office suite for KDE.

Package information

Additional downloads

KOffice has many internationalization packages in the form of: koffice-i18n-[xx]-1.3.5.tar.bz2. The [xx] is a two to five letter code for the country covered. The sizes of these files range from about 0.3 MB to 4.2 MB. You can also download a complete i18n version which includes translations for all country codes.

Installation of KOffice

Install KOffice with the following commands:

./configure --prefix=$KDE_PREFIX --disable-debug \
    --disable-dependency-tracking &&
make &&
make install
[Note]

Note

If you wish to create the API documentation and you have Doxygen and GraphViz installed, make apidox must be done before make install.

Contents

The KOffice package provides karbon, kchart, kformula, kivio, koconverter, koscript, koshell, kprconverter.pl, kpresenter, kspread, kthesaurus, kudesigner, kugar and kword.

Description

kchart

kchart is a chart drawing application.

kformula

kformula is a formula editor.

kivio

kivio is a flowchart program.

kpresenter

kpresenter is a presentation builder/display program.

kspread

kspread is a scriptable spreadsheet program.

kugar

kugar is a tool for creating reports.

kword

kword is a framemaker-like word processing and desktop publishing program.