I'm a real property appraiser and former user of NeoOffice. I stumbled over a link to AOO, and installed it on my late-model iMac. Works great, generally.
My reports usually run from 80 to 200 pages, with LOTS of pictures and graphics. I found that on OOo 3.x (latest version compiled as a Mac binary), the document quit saving when it reached about 150 pages. CPU use would go to 100%, and it would hang. Changed back to NeoOffice, and saving worked fine, so I stuck with NeoOffice until Patrick started charging for incremental updates. After installing AOO, I find that a 214-page document saves not only just fine, but in less time than Neo or OOo took. Backup saves are also faster. Just two things (so far) keep AOO from being ideal: 1) When a picture is inserted from a file, the pic is inserted in the right place, but when it's finished, the cursor jumps to the end of the document. (My template is about 40 pages long.) This is a minor inconvenience, since my subheads are in the navigation panel to the left. Just double-click where you were, and you're back to writing about the picture you just inserted. 2) Auto-hyphenation doesn't seem to work at all. I've set it in the preferences, but it does not auto-hypenate. Would someone else who is working on a Mac please check these things to see if these conditions can be replicated? Regards, Jim Plante --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
