# Chapter 2. Introduction

KPresenter is the presentations program in the KOffice productivity suite. Using KPresenter, you can prepare a set of slides for use in an on-screen slideshow or for printing. Your slides can include text and graphics in a variety of formats, and of course, you can embed all sorts of objects using KParts.

The KOffice productivity suite consists of a number of applications which are designed to work together. Overview documentation for KOffice is available, as well as manuals for each component of the suite. The components of KOffice are:

- KWord - a frames based wordprocessor.

- KSpread - a spreadsheet application.

- KPresenter - a presentations application.

- KIllustrator - a vector drawing application.

- KImageShop - a bitmap drawing application.

- Katabase - a database application.

- KFormula - an editor for mathematical formulae.

- KChart - an application to draw charts and diagrams.

- KImage - a simple image viewing application.

In addition to the above components, KLyX will become part of KOffice in the future. KLyX is a wordprocessor for scientific and mathematical documents based on TeX.

KOffice is a free (or open-source) software project which is released under the terms of the GNU General Public License.