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KOffice - Integrated Office Suite: KOffice is an integrated office suite for KDE (running also on other OS'es like Linux Ubuntu and even Windows). KOffice features a full set of applications which work together seamlessly to provide the best user experience possible. KOffice components work together. Every program in the KOffice suite is a component which adds more functionality to the whole. You can embed any KOffice component in any other KOffice component, this is realised using the KParts object model from KDE.

KOffice, like KDE, is a free project which is released under GPL-compatible open source licenses, e.g. GPL, LGPL and BSD.

KOffice supports Open Document Format (ODF), an ISO standard. In fact, KOffice is the first office suite that used ODF as the default file format.

My personnal experience with KOffice are very limited, but I am very enthusiastic about it: It is the ONLY (!) software I know that was able to convert FROM pdf to odt in a useful way. I tested some applications, even some you have to pay for as PdfGrabber, but KWord was the only one who was able to devide a complex table with graphics and texts into its ver details, so one could just copy and paste and set into .ods table. Sure, there were some minor copypasta to do, but here I am talking about a few minutes to restore the original form of the table. Any other program I tested was not able to either see/convert the graphics at all or divide them into pieces (Zamzar.com, eg., converted the 10 graphics into one huge graphic).