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KDEPIM and KDE- The graphical KDE also has a pack- age for personal information management (PIM) of ap- FreeBSD pointments, tasks, contacts and called 'Kontact'. It consists of the modules KMail for Email, KOrganizer for Office-Programs appointments and organization, KNode as news reader and others for a fully integrated PIM suite. Email can be sorted with rules, and cleaned from spam Introduction with filters. Appointments can be organized as single Office programs belong to the most important applica- and recurring, with multiple invitees and reminders and Textverarbeitung mit OpenOffice.org 2.0 Writer, tions on computers. While there are commercial office coordinated with other calendars. Import and export of Jacqueline Rahemipour, Galileo Press, ISBN: 3898426599 packages available, the free ones offer the same func- calendars is supported with the iCalendar () and Präsentationen mit OpenOffice.org 2.0, tionality now. vCalendar(vcal) formats. Stefan Köhler, Andreas Mantke, Galileo Press, ISBN: Many programs are used for creating, editing and view- Addresses can be stored locally or on a network via 3898426602 ing PostScript and PDF files, often they are expensive, LDAP in a global address book. Kontact offers complete Wissenschaftliche Arbeiten schreiben mit the ones for FreeBSD are free and just as good. Personal integration with groupware servers too. OpenOffice.org 2.0, m. CD-ROM, Information Management (PIM) of , contacts and Natascha Nicol, Ralf Albrecht, Addison-Wesley-Verlag, appointments is becoming increasingly important. Suite ISBN: 3827323010 On FreeBSD there are multiple software packages avail- Just as Gnome Evolution and Kontact, the Mozilla Suite TextMaker 2005 - Das offizielle Anwenderhandbuch, able that are fully-fledged PIMs. Nearly all programs offers similar functionality, but communication with Stephan Lamprecht, Bomots Verlag, ISBN: 3939316024 support ODT, an open XML-based data format that is be- groupware servers is not as developed. PlanMaker 2006 kompakt - Das offizielle Anwenderhand- coming increasingly wide-spread and is even an ISO buch, René Gäbler, Bomots-Verlag, ISBN: 3939316032 standard now. Other Office Applications There are so many different Office applications that de- Additional Information scribing them all would take up more space than we have available here. Therefore please find below a short We strongly recommend using the excellent FreeBSD The most important Office progrms handbook: list without qualification or commentary. Office packages: OpenOffice.org, KOffice, Softmaker-Offi- ● Office Packages http://www.FreeBSD.org/doc/en/books/handbook ce http://www.FreeBSD.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/ ● AbiWord (Gnome Office Package), Free stand-alone programs: Abiword, Gnumeric, handbook/desktop. ( program with many import and Additional programs: xPDF, GV/GVV, GPDF, Acroread, export filters ) Further information can be found here: KDEgraphics (KPDF, Kolorpaint, KView), Gimp ● PIMs (Evolution, Mozilla, Kontact) OpenOffice: http://openoffice.org/ Communication: KDEPIM (Kmail, Kfax, Kcalender etc) ● Email (, Thunderbird, ) StarOffice: de.sun.com/products/software/star/staroffi- Gnome-Evolution, Mozilla (browser with calender and ce mail), Opera (browser with mail, Thunderbird, ● Multiple text editors (vim, emacs, etc.) Koffice: http://www.koffice.de/ Sylpheed , etc. ● xPDF, GV/GVV, GPDF, Acroread (PDF viewer) SoftMaker: http://www.softmaker.de/ ● KDEgraphics , Gimp (graphics programs Gnome-Evolution: www..org/projects/evolution ● A TEX and L TEX (tpe setting) KDE-Kontact: http://kontact.kde.org/ Abiword: http://www.abisource.com/ Literature Gnumeric: http://www.gnome.org/projects/gnumeric/ OpenOffice.org 2.0 - Einstieg und Umstieg, Thomas Krumbein, Galileo Press, ISBN: 3898426181 Tabellenkalkulation mit OpenOffice.org 2.0 Calc, Jörg Schmidt, Galileo Press, ISBN: 3898426580 FreeBSD: The Power To Serve

© 2005-2009 allBSD.de Projekt – written by Dirk Arlt. The BSD is copyright Marshall McKusick. The mark FreeBSD and the FreeBSD Logo is a registered trademark of The FreeBSD Foundation and is used by allBSD with the permission of The FreeBSD Foundation. Valid as of 02.05.2009 OpenOffice For other sources for localized packages, see below: KOffice Installation OpenOffice is one of the most well known integrated of- http://live.prooo-box.org/openoffice.org/freebsd_dvd/ The installation of KOffice can be done via Ports or Pack- fice suites. It is an open source development that is ftp://ooopackages.good- ages. Via Ports compiling and installing this large suite strongly supported by Sun Microsystems. day.net/pub/OpenOffice.org/FreeBSD/ also takes some hours. There are no installation options available, so just enter pkg_add -r to install. OpenOffice consists of five core modules: Text (Writer), Otherwise OpenOffice can also be installed via Ports. But For localization it is advisable to install for example de- Spreadsheet (Calc), Presentation (Impress), Draw (Draw) it's advisable to have a powerful machine and enough koffice-i18n if you need to have German localization and (Base). The modules have a look and feel time, since compilation and installation of this large (others are available too). Like the suite, this can be strongly influenced by . package can take up to 10 hours. done via Ports or Packages. If you use KDE as your main Furthermore OpenOffice has extensive import capabilit- graphical environment then you may also completely ies apart from the standard Microsoft Office formats of StarOffice from Sun Microsystems localize that with Word, Excel, Powerpoint, Microsoft Office dictionaries, de--i18n - install that also via Ports or Packages and templates and other file formats. StarOffice is the commercial foundation of the free OpenOffice development. Sun offers paid support for change the settings accordingly in the KDE Control Cen- OpenOffice also supports the Open Document Format this office suite. StarOffice is functionally identical to ter. Other languages are treated similar. (ODF) that has been recognized in May 2005 as an ISO OpenOffice, but has also document templates integrated standard. That way documents can be shared between complying with ISO standards office suites without lossage. Communication and Calender Since communication and calendar management are Not only is the number of import filters large, but also Softmaker-Office also a large part of productive work besides manipula- that of the export filters. OpenOffice can natively create The German software developer Softmaker offers a lean tion text and , programs are also available for PDF documents, for example. and fast office suite with Softmaker Office. At the mo- this. OpenOffice is available in 20 different languages and has ment it consists of TextMaker (text) and PlanMaker dictionaries and grammar rules for most of them. Tem- (spreadsheet). This office suite can import and export plates for private and commercial use are also available Microsoft Office and OpenOffice documents. Softmaker Gnome Evolution for free, of course. In the meantime there are also many is a commercial program and is therefore not free of Within the Gnome desktop project framework this pro- books on OpenOffice available to help with training and charge. gram was developed to cover email, calendar, task and efficient use of this large office suite. contact management. It offers also groupware function- ality over the network with corresponding servers. KOffice Email can be sorted and filtered. Appointments can be OpenOffice Installation Another office suite, this time belonging to the K set, manipulated, shared, exported and imported with A fast internet connection is advisable for installation. Desktop Environment (KDE), is KOffice. It can be used iCalendar (ical) and vCalendar (vcal). Addresses can also Installing the complete package via Sysinstall (FreeBSD without KDE, but installing it, adds most of KDE as a de- be shared on a network via LDAP. Newsgroups are also installer) is probably the easies way. pendency too. Because of its excellent integration with supported in a module. To do that, just enter sysinstall as root and do the fol- all other KDE components like KDEgraphics, Kontact etc. lowing: it makes a lot of sense to use KOffice if you use KDE and most of its programs too. KOffice consists mainly of Configure-Packages-FTP Passive (choose mirror closest KWord (tex), KSpread (spreadsheet), KPresenter to you) - editors - openoffice.org-(version) - change to (presentation), (drawing), KPlato (project man- install with . agement) and (database management). There are After a while the whole package is installed on your ma- many other modules available. The import and export chine. functionality is not yet as extensive as with OpenOffice, StarOffice and Softmaker Office, but development is The version of OpenOffice is not localized in German very active in all areas. though and doing that manually is not quite as easy. Therefore completely localized packages are available. Check http://porting.openoffice.org/freebsd to see which versions are available at the moment. Download the version you want and install as root with pkg_add packagename. FreeBSD: The Power To Serve

© 2005-2009 allBSD.de Projekt – written by Dirk Arlt. The BSD Daemon is copyright Marshall McKusick. The mark FreeBSD and the FreeBSD Logo is a registered trademark of The FreeBSD Foundation and is used by allBSD with the permission of The FreeBSD Foundation. Valid as of 02.05.2009