2007/3/22, Robert Klein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
Dear Sirs:
I have suggested to many of my friends who own Mac's to use Open
Office on their machines instead of the costly Microsoft equivilent.
Realizing I had made a mistake because of the instability of an
application needed to be installed before Open Office can be used on
their computer.
Is there any way to bypass this and be usable on their system? This
would be very helpful to them.
Thank you so much.
Robert Klein
Hello Robert
I also encourage my Mac friends to switch to OpenOffice.org
I encounter no problems whatsoever with stability of OOo on my Macs
For the moment, it is still necessary to use the X11 windowing system, but
once the right version is installed, this poses no problem. When you launch
OOO, X11 opens automagically. There has been some confusion a few months
ago, because Apple provided a faulty update, but since then all is OK with
X11 (version 1.1 or better 1.1.3).
the other required componet, Java, poses even less problems, because it's an
averyday componenet of Apple.
So I wonder what your 'instability' problem refers to?
Furthermore, the native Aqua version of OOo for Mac (that doesn't need X11
to function) is right on track and will be available sometime later this
year.
In the mean time, I wouldn't advise to switch to NeoOffice. This 'fork' of
OOo is two versions behind, and doesn't offer many advantages comapred to
the present OOo version with X11.
--
Guy
using dutch OOo 2.2 RC 3 on a iMac Intel DualCore Tiger
and dutch OOo 2.2 RC 3 on a G4 PPC Powerbook Tiger
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