Have you tried using the SETUP_GUIDE? See http://documentation.openoffice.org/setup_guide2/2.x/en/SETUP_GUIDE.pdf for us letter. Other formats are also available.
On Sat, 2005-11-12 at 12:19 +0000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi, > > hopefully I'm posting this in the right place and in the right way... > first time. > > A post has been submitted by "cfrees" complaining about the lack of > clarity over how to use OpenOffice.org 2.0 in Mac OS X. There have > been several user support requests on how to actually get > OpenOffice.org 2.0 working - mainly because there is no Read Me that > comes with the download (and having looked at versiontracker.com > there is no description there either). The main issue is that it > isn't apparent that you need X11 installed!! > > The post is the top one on this page: > > http://trinity.neooffice.org/modules.php? > name=Forums&file=viewtopic&t=1920&start=30&postdays=0&postorder=asc&high > light= > > While here, I may as well submit my complaint about the auto-running > of fondu when you launch OpenOffice.org 2.0 for X11. Fair enough that > you have to use fondu to get fonts available to the app, but I find > it quite unacceptable that there is no end-user choice in this > process or the ability to pick and choose which fonts you would like > converted (or more pertinently, those that you wouldn't). As a > consequence of having over a thousand fonts installed on my system, > the OpenOffice.org 2.0 package swelled to nearly 700MB of disk space. > To have an app use that much space without my own input and choice in > the matter is not good. Worse still, although I have those thousand > plus fonts, I only have about 100 active at any one time. To be > presented with more than a thousand fonts in an application when you > don't want it is also not a good thing. > > What if an end-user has several thousand fonts installed? They could > very easily see a few GB of disk space disappear for no apparent > reason as they wouldn't necessarily know that the fondu process was > occurring and that all their fonts were being duplicated without > their consent. > > Anyway, the work you folks put in is appreciated but it would be > better if you could include a readme with your downloads that details > the issues above. > > Cheers, > > Jonathan > > ------------ > > Please visit The Land Gallery for British Fine Art inspired by nature > and landscape: > > http://www.thelandgallery.com > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- PLEASE KEEP MESSAGES ON THE LIST. OpenOffice.org Documentation Co-Lead http://documentation.openoffice.org/ --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
