On Sat, 18 Oct 2003 23:31:43 +0200 Redeeman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> i have a Athlon XP1800+ with 640mb ddr pc2100ram, it takes me 3 seconds > to start my own compiled openoffice-ximian1.1-r1, both first and second > time, the openoffice1.0-bin i got took 12 seconds first time, and 7 > seconds second time, so i am happy with my own compiled ;-) >
Sound cool. Sometime when I can setup enough temp space, I'll try it
again.
OTOH, since I normally only use OO a few times a month, I can tolerate
8
seconds quite easily.
I use OO for school on a regular basis (in windows and linux). Currently (in linux) I'm using the openoffice-ximian ebuild from BMG. The launch (currently oo-ximian-1.1_rc3 due to lack of compile space) isnt that great (15 seconds every time). It's a pain for classes where I will close and open it dozens of times.
Will try 1.1 release with and without patches, and -bin. I always create binary tarballs of large packages like this "just in case", so its not too tough to alternate between them.
> () ascii ribbon campaign - against html e-mail > /\ - against microsoft attachments
I agree about html mail. But Microsoft attachments are a lot more tolerable with OO!
What I really despise is pdf attachments. OO will create pdf just fine, but there's no way to read and modify it on linux (that I am aware of).
There are many pdf viewers for linux. I use gpdf, and have used ggv, xpdf, and a few others. They are fairly decent, but the font rendering, at least on pdf's i have viewed, is terrible. And they lack the ability to search pdfs (if the pdf itself has said ability).
That said, acrobat reader is availiable for linux.
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