“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…'”