KOffice Descendent Calligra Office and Creativity Suite Hits Release

jrepin writes "The Calligra team has announced the first release of the Calligra suite of office and creativity applications. This marks the end of a long development period lasting almost one and a half year. It is the first release in a long series which is planned to make improved applications every 4 months. Calligra is a continuation of the old KOffice project and it may be interesting for KOffice users to know what they will get. Some highlights are: a completely rewritten text layout engine that can handle most of the advanced layout features of OpenDocument Format (ODF), simplified user interface, support for larger parts of the ODF specification (for example line endings like arrows), and improved import filters for Microsoft document formats. There are also two new applications: Flow for diagrams and flowcharts, and Braindump for the note taking. Calligra Active is a new interface for touch based devices and especially for the KDE Plasma Active environment. Several companies have already used Calligra as a base for their own office solution. One of them is Nokia with their N9 high end smartphone where Calligra is embedded into the so called Harmattan Office."

Re:A related question

[Anonymous Coward]

You should test it again. Calligra renders all the document types very much better, including MS formats, and it doesn't crash (we hope :) ).

And Krita is not a photo editing app but a painting app. It used to be a do-it-all for images but a few years ago they decided to become a pure painting app. Which they did.

Re:Diagramming/Flow charts

[Anonymous Coward]

Come back when it uses a single window and you can draw basic shapes and link them together with lines, arrows, and objects have "snappy" corners and midpoints of their edges. That's really what 90% of people need.

Oh, it is not a single window app. The remaining is there.