Rpeters: outline of availability & applicability of Calligra suite

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outline of availability & applicability of Calligra suite

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Calligra is a free, office suite. Homepage https://www.calligra.org/

Its main advantage compared with LibreOffice/OpenOffice is smaller packages, which might run better on older/lower-spec hardware.

Its native document format is ODF and it can import/export a range of documents as well
*PDF
*DOC(x)
*XLS(x)
*PPT(x)
*various graphics formats
*as well as some older formats

== For General Users ==

The Windows version is experimental and not suitable for general users. Stable versions of the following are suitable alternatives
*LibreOffice 5.x http://www.libreoffice.org/ and
*OpenOffice 4.x http://www.openoffice.org/

Calligra is based on KDE desktop. Installation to other desktops is possible, requiring that approximately 80 MB of additional dependencies be downloaded

It is available in most major Linux distributions - most reliable way to install it would be via the distributions software manager.
*the version for KDE 4 is stable and perhaps the best choice for new users
*a compilation for Frameworks 5 is available but not completely stable and not recommended for viewing/editing important documents, at this juncture
**the Stage and Words modules are fairly usable
**Kexi and Sheets are usable for only simple databases and spreadsheets respectively

=== Documentation ===
A disadvantage, compared with LibreOffice and OpenOffice is that Help menu might not work. Help can be accessed from a separate web page:
https://docs.kde.org/index.php?language=en&package=calligra from which PDF versions can also be downloaded

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