New features in Calligra suite

From	RS Wood <rsw@therandymon.com>
Newsgroups	comp.misc
Subject	New features in Calligra suite
Date	2014-03-05 20:42 +0000
Organization	solani.org
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Title: Calligra 2.8 Released
Author: Calligra News
Date: Wed, 05 Mar 2014 14:36:00 -0500
Link: http://www.calligra.org/news/calligra-2-8-released/

The Calligra team is proud and pleased to announce the release of version 2.8
of the Calligra Suite[1], Calligra Active and the Calligra Office Engine.
This version is the result of thousands of commits which provide new
features, polishing of the user experience and bug fixes.

News in This Release

Calligra 2.8 contains a number of new features. Here is an excerpt of the
most important ones.

Words, the word processing application, now has support for comments in the
text.

FIXME: Screenshot

Author, the writer’s application, has the same enhancements as Words.

Sheets, the spreadsheet application, has improved support for pivot tables.

For Kexi, the visual database creator, 2.8 version is focused on improving
quality of existing features. Thanks to close collaboration with users[2],
about 30 issues[3] has been identified and corrected. The only new feature is
ability to open hyperlinks in forms. But the big news is that the app is now
available to build and run on Windows for the first time in 2.x series.

Flow, the diagram editor, has new support for SVG based stencils.

Krita, the full-featured free digital painting studio for artists provides a
very exciting release! There are many new features, among them a new
high-quality scaling mode for the OpenGL canvas, G’Mic[4] integration, a
wraparound painting mode for easy creation of textures and tiles, support for
touch screens.

The 2.8 release also features two new applications based on Krita: Krita
Sketch, aimed at tablets and Krita Gemini, which can switch between desktop
and tablet mode at the press of a button. The full set of improvements is
huge! Krita has made its own release announcement on krita.org[5], which is
well worth looking at. Krita 2.8 will also be available for Windows.

There are also some general improvements in all apps. It is now possible to
copy and paste any shape between any documents in Calligra applications.
Moreover, copying and pasting of images and rich text is now more advanced.

Try It Out

The source code of the release is available for download here:
calligra-2.8.0.tar.xz[6]. Alternatively, you can download binaries for many
Linux distributions and for Windows[7].

About the Calligra Suite

[image 8]The Calligra Suite is part of the applications from the KDE
community. For more information visit http://www.calligra.org[9].


Links:
[1]: http://www.calligra-suite.org/ (link)
[2]: http://forum.kde.org/kexi (link)
[3]: http://community.kde.org/Kexi/Releases/Kexi_2.8 (link)
[4]: http://http://gmic.sourceforge.net/ (link)
[5]: http://krita.org/item/220-krita-2-8-0-released (link)
[6]: http://download.kde.org/stable/calligra-2.8.0/calligra-2.8.0.tar.xz (link)
[7]: http://userbase.kde.org/Calligra/Download#Stable_Release (link)
[8]: http://www.calligra.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/calligra-logo-transparent-for-light-600-300x200.png (image)
[9]: http://www.calligra.org (link)

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