The Calligra Suite is Calligra for the desktop. It offers a comprehensive set of 8 applications which satisfies the office, graphics and management needs.
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Office Applications All the office power that you need more » |
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Graphics Applications Create stunning graphics with vectors or pixels more » |
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Project Management Keep full control over your projects more » |
Common Features
The applications in the Calligra Suite shares some common UI concepts that gives it a modern look better suited for the wide screens of today. One of them is that most formatting is done using dockers which are placed at the side of the windows instead of on the top. This makes more space available for the actual document contents and avoids opening dialogs on top of it. If the user chooses, s/he can rearrange the placement of the dockers around the document area or even tear loose them and let them float freely. The arrangement is saved and reused the next time Calligra is opened.
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| Embeddable Objects There are many objects and shapes that you can insert into your document, such as geometric shapes, sheet music score, and many more amazing options. All of these shapes are available in all applications, which makes implementing these objects much easier. |
Standard file format Calligra uses the Open Document Format (ODF) as its main file format which makes it compatible with most other office applications including OpenOffice.org, LibreOffice and Microsoft Office. It can also import the native file formats of Microsoft Office with great accuracy, in many cases the best you can find. |
Hi
I admire the Stage – it works finely.
However the Sheets require improvements if you intent to replace MS Office Suite
Plan is simple and good
Yours
VN
Finally a suite where I can use all the features of the entire package instead just of one module (program), as in LibreOffice (which I used before) where one cannot use certain features in Draw that belongs to Writer and vice-versa. My favorite is Flow, where I can design everything from bunker schematics to my AMD 1100T CPU. I hope you keep it that way, so you can cross-use almost every feature from every program, and that you try to make the suite as feature-rich and state-of-the-art as possible.
Keep up the great work!
Regards,
Paracelzus.
Please take in count academic users who require features provided by Zotero and Mendeley and who would also need a platform to read documents and articles, quote them, manage quotes and citation (so hard to find back after reading piles of documents), manage library, share notes and work collectively on documents (both in document creation and document analysis).
Hi,
I would agree, I really like the clean interface and useful tools, but I am still having to use Libre Office as it will intergrate my references from Mendeley and that just saves me too much time to make a full switch whilst I am currently writing reports.
Calligra is REALLY a Powerful Office Suit!!! I admire the developing team ,and hope this suit grow big in the future !! thanks all the contributors!!
I haven’t tried Calligra yet, being new to Linux and still trying to find my way around Mint. I don’t even have a KDE box at this point. But I’ll probably like Calligra if it’s character-based and not frame-based like KDE’s awful KWord.
I was a WordPerfect-on-DOS guy for many years, all the way up through version 6. I stayed with WP after Novell and then Corel got hold of it, and I invested in three different versions of Ventura Publisher (Still the best DTP around and Version 10 is now more than 10 years old). Now I’m finally up against it. I can’t hang on any longer. I know MS will quit supporting Win 7 in a couple of years. I will NEVER adopt touch-screen computing. So I’ve got to get out of Windows and get into something else before I find myself being driven to do it and unable to make the transition.
It would be a great office suite if there were any integration of Zotero and/or Mendeley.
Yes, that’s a good idea and I’m sure it will happen in the not very long future. But right now we have no short-term plans to do it.
Thanks for the reply. I really like Calligra Words, but I will have to wait until features provided by Zotero or Mendeley are being integrated. At current it is almost impossible to use in academic environments.