Calligra 2.4 Beta 4 Changelog

General

• Fix saving quadratic bezier curves.
• Improve loading speed of patterns.
• Use the same tool on the mouse and tablet (283130 and 285501).
• Do not show text boundary when printing (285740).
• Fix zooming in stage, flow and words.
• Fix saving of GIF images (285311).
• Text
  • Improved handling of style inheritance (parent styles)
  • Support embedded fonts.
  • Improvement to the developer documentation.
  • Fix numbering of list items (278263).

Words

• Improvement to loading paragraph and character styles from DOCX files.
• Fix image anchor for document with more than one page.

Tables

• Fix the cell background being invisible for autofilter popup cells.
• Fix import of autofilter properties from XSLX files.
• Performance improvement for recalculating formulas.
• Fix ‘whole column’ and absolute definitions in XSLX formulas (284601).
• Performance improvement when loading files (284325).

Kexi

• Global Search, new feature of Kexi 2.4, now operates like Google Suggest i.e. offers full-text search. It can be used to quickly locate objects (tables, queries, forms, etc.) by name in large databases. More information available on a blog entry.
• Link Buttons of the Kexi Menu Assistants have no longer hardcoded sizes. This is visual and accessibility improvement.
• Fix crash when using a query as a report data source and switching to design view.
• Fix placement of context menu for widgets on Kexi Forms (283568)

Plan

• Fix tooltips for work package owner and transmition time.
• Performance views
  • Fix items should not be selectable or editable.
  • Fix resize the view when columns are hidden.
• Update reports automatically when schedule changes (286495).
• Use calendar popups for all date-times (286413).
• Initially expand resource group in the Task resource allocation dialog (286332).
• Remember zoom and scale settings in resource assignment Gantt chart (284349).
• Enable moving views and categories using drag and drop in the view selector.

Krita

• Fix display of a 2 pixels border at certain zoom level (276870)
• Fix crash on moving layer with applied transparency mask (255617)
• Fix calligraconverter hanging when converting files to ORA (285827)
• Use a new icon for the multi hand tool.
• Port the rotate action to the strokes framework.
• Fixed updating canvas after crop (250146).
• Fix conversion from CMYK 16bit to 8bit change the visual appearance (281761).
• Fix update and loading of clone layers.
• Improve CMYK support in PSD files.
• Better preset pack.
• Improve the dyna tool options docker.
• Fix crash in the grid brush (285805).
• Fix crash on moving masks to root layer.
• Fix color management of display (285382).
• Fix crash when using color picker and move tools on empty images.

Shapes

• Text
  • Fix crash when cancelling adding a table.
• Fix crashes with some EMF files (286715 and 286713).
• Fix legend labels when not defined as region but within the local data-table (285440)