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  <!ENTITY package "calligra">
  <!ENTITY calligra "Calligra">
  <!ENTITY tables "<application>Calligra Tables</application>">
  <!ENTITY words "<application>Calligra Words</application>">
  <!ENTITY stage "<application>Calligra Stage</application>">
  <!ENTITY flow "<application>Calligra Flow</application>">
  <!ENTITY plan "<application>Calligra Plan</application>">
  <!ENTITY kappname "&stage;">
  <!ENTITY % addindex "IGNORE">
  <!ENTITY tutorial SYSTEM "tutorial.docbook">
  <!ENTITY guides SYSTEM "guides.docbook">
  <!ENTITY great SYSTEM "great-presentations.docbook">
  <!ENTITY menus SYSTEM "menus.docbook">
  <!ENTITY options SYSTEM "options.docbook">
  <!ENTITY % English "INCLUDE" > <!-- change language only here -->
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<book lang="&language;">
<bookinfo>
<title>The &stage; Handbook</title>

<authorgroup>
<author>
&Neil.Lucock; &Neil.Lucock.mail;
</author>

<author>
&Krishna.Tateneni; &Krishna.Tateneni.mail;
</author>

<author>
&Anne-Marie.Mahfouf; &Anne-Marie.Mahfouf.mail;
</author>

<author>
<personname>
<firstname>Gary</firstname>
<surname>Cramblitt</surname>
</personname>
<email>garycramblitt@comcast.net</email>
</author>

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</authorgroup>

<date>2012-01-18</date>
<releaseinfo>2.4</releaseinfo>

<copyright>
<year>1999</year><year>2000</year>
<holder>&Krishna.Tateneni;</holder>
</copyright>

<copyright>
<year>2001</year><year>2002</year>
<holder>&Neil.Lucock;</holder>
</copyright>

<copyright>
<year>2005</year>
<holder>&Anne-Marie.Mahfouf;</holder>
</copyright>

<copyright>
<year>2006</year>
<holder>Gary Cramblitt</holder>
</copyright>

<legalnotice>&FDLNotice;</legalnotice>

<abstract>
<para>
&stage; is the presentations program in the &calligra; suite of
productivity applications.
</para>
</abstract>

<keywordset>
<keyword>KDE</keyword>
<keyword>Stage</keyword>
<keyword>Calligra</keyword>
<keyword>Graphics</keyword>
<keyword>Presentations</keyword>
</keywordset>

</bookinfo>

<chapter id="introduction">
<title>Introduction</title>

<important> <para>Please check <ulink
url="http://docs.kde.org/en/development/en/calligra/stage/index.html">http://docs.kde.org</ulink>
for updated versions of this document.</para></important>

<para>
&stage; is the presentations program in the &calligra; productivity
suite. Using &stage;, 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.
</para>

<para>
The &calligra; productivity suite consists of a number of applications
which are designed to work together. Overview documentation for
&calligra; is available, as well as manuals for each component of the
suite. Other components of &calligra; are:
</para>

<itemizedlist>
<listitem>
<para>
&words; - a frames based wordprocessor.
</para>
</listitem>

<listitem><para>
&tables; - a spreadsheet application.
</para>
</listitem>

</itemizedlist>

<para>
&calligra; is a free (or open-source) software project which is
released under the terms of the &GNU; General Public
License.
</para>

</chapter>

&tutorial;

&guides;

&great;

&menus;

&options;

<chapter id="credits">
<title>Credits and License</title>

<para>
&stage;
</para>

<para>
Program copyright 1998-2000 by Reginald Stadlbauer
<email>reggie@kde.org</email>
</para>

<para>
Current maintainer is Laurent Montel <email>montel@kde.org</email>.
</para>


<itemizedlist>
<title>Contributors</title>

<listitem>
<para>
Werner Trobin <email>trobin@kde.org</email>.
</para>
</listitem>

<listitem>
<para>
&David.Faure; &David.Faure.mail;
</para>
</listitem>

<listitem>
<para>
Toshitaka Fujioka <email>fujioka@kde.org</email>
</para>
</listitem>

<listitem>
<para>
Luk&aacute;&scaron; Tinkl <email>lukas@kde.org</email>
</para>
</listitem>

<listitem>
<para>
&Thorsten.Zachmann; &Thorsten.Zachmann.mail;
</para>
</listitem>

<listitem>
<para>
Ariya Hidayat <email>ariya@kde.org</email>
</para>
</listitem>

<listitem>
<para>
Percy Leonhardt <email>percy@eris23.de</email>
</para>
</listitem>
</itemizedlist>

<para>
Documentation based on the work copyright 1999-2000 by &Krishna.Tateneni;
.  Portions are copyright 2000-2002 &Neil.Lucock; &Neil.Lucock.mail;
and 2005 &Anne-Marie.Mahfouf; &Anne-Marie.Mahfouf.mail;
</para>

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&underFDL;
&underGPL;

</chapter>

<appendix id="installation">
<title>Installation</title>

&install.intro.documentation;

&install.compile.documentation;

</appendix>

&documentation.index; 

</book>