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KOffice is based on KDE ( http://www.kde.org ) which is needed to run KOffice.
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You need kdelibs and kdebase installed if you want to compile and run
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KOffice. Look in the kdelibs sourcedir for the file COMPILING for help. Also
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look at the website as there are many helpfiles available.
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KOffice is a collection of office applications linked together by a common
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basis. This common basis assures that all office application can work
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together. You can, for instance, insert a spreadsheet in your thesis without
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leaving your document. Editing the spreadsheet happens _inside_ your thesis.
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The applications currently included in KOffice are:
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- KWord
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Professional text editing
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- KSpread
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Professional number cruncher/spreadsheet
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- KPresenter
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Professional presentation program
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- KChart
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Graphing of your abstract data
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- Karbon
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Vector graphics tool
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- Kugar
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Database report creation
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- Kivio
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Flowcharting program
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- Kexi
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Integrated data management
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- Chalk
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A pixel graphics tool
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- KFormula
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A mathematical formula editor
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- KOffice Workspace
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A combination of all of the above
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Note: these applications are not necessarily part of the previous or next
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official stable version of KOffice.
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Developers:
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KOffice is created by Open Source programmers around the world. All developers
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give their time/code to the community for everyone to benefit. The major reason
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this is done is because those developers want to have a good office suite, and
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they don't mind sharing it with you.
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If you feel you found a bug or missing feature you can always contact the
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developers of KOffice (via http://www.koffice.org ) or delve into the software
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yourself.
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The part that is shared between all KOffice applications can be found in the lib
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directory. There classes like KoDocument can be found; these classes are
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extended in the project directories.
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Read the .h files in the respective directories for more info.
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Document format:
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Nearly all KOffice applications use XML formatted files in a ZIP file.
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The main document in XML format can be read with a text editor (after having
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unzip-ped it from the ZIP file.) XML itself is simply a set of tags,
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where the application can define the meaning of these tags. The definition of
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the document type is therefore different for each KOffice application (as you
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will most likely not find a curved line in a KWord document). The Document Type
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Definition can be found in every application's source directory in the
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directory '(application)/dtd.'
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If you would like more information about the makeup of the actual KOffice
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document structure (not the XML DTD), see the lib/store/SPEC file.
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If you want to see more/fix bugs in this file, feel free to ask or add it
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yourself.
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Contacts:
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User mailing list: mailto:koffice@kde.org
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Developer mailing list: mailto:koffice-devel@kde.org
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Subscribing and list information: http://www.kde.org/mailinglists
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Archives: http://lists.kde.org
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If you have questions about this README file or about KOffice in general,
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please mail to the KOffice mailing list: mailto:koffice@kde.org
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Thomas Zander
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Chris Lee
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