interesting behaviour.waiting to listen others' comments On 9 August 2011 12:11, brad <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi. I've been running OpenOffice 3.3.0 on my Slackware 12.0 Linux > distribution (2.6.28.6 kernel). It's been running fine, except its > formatting of Microsoft Word documents doesn't marry with Word itself. I > have to run up Word if I want to make totally sure that indented columns > line up, lines don't overflow the right margin, etc. And when I open a > Word > document that I've 'fixed' to look right in Word back in OpenOffice it'll > look unaligned, even though in Word itself it isn't. > > Then, today, I installed LibreOffice 3.4.2 on a Fedora 14 virtual machine, > having read a comment that LibreOffice does a much better job of emulating > Word. Sure enough, LibreOffice worked perfectly in that virtual machine - > rendering documents just like Word. > > So I promptly went back to my 'real' machine and installed LibreOffice. > > However LibreOffice is no different! When I open up a document it looks > exactly as it used to in OpenOffice (i.e. the text is unaligned, unfaithful > to how Word would render it). Also the icons in the various menu bars > don't > look at all the same between LibreOffice running on my host machine versus > how it looks on the Fedora 14 VM. > > I move the existing OpenOffice installation out of the way (by renaming the > /opt/openoffice.org* directories) and did a 'ps' listing to make sure that > the executables that I was running were all coming out of > /opt/libreoffice3.4. Clicking on the Help/About menu tells me that I'm > running LibreOffice 3.4.2. > > Right now I have no idea what to look at next. I guess something is > hanging > around in my Slackware host machine that's telling LibreOffice to do the > wrong formatting? Is it possible that different versions of shared > libraries could cause LibreOffice to look and render quite differently? > > Many thanks for any tips! > > -- > View this message in context: > http://nabble.documentfoundation.org/Displaying-behaviour-from-old-OpenOffice-installation-tp3238057p3238057.html > Sent from the Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. > > -- > For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: [email protected] > Problems? > http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ > Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette > List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ > All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be > deleted > > -- Dr soumalya ray <http://drsoumalya.blogspot.com> <[email protected]> MBBS,MD(PGT)C.Medicine,Ex-HousePhysician(Medicine) Skype: som3776 | Twitter: @docbkp <http://twitter.com/docbkp> -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: [email protected] Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
