On Tuesday 10 May 2005 00:25, + Ferdinand Mehlinger wrote: > [ MODERATED ] *********************** > Hello, > > I was just wondering if openoffice was compatible with Tiger. I am on that > system and really need open office to open up some programs, but I'm not > sure how to do it, nor if I need any other particular software. Can you > please help me with these problems. Thank you.
As you are not subscribed you may not have seen that: On Wednesday 11 May 2005 17:37, Ross Bernheim wrote: > > OpenOffice 1.1.4 is indeed compatible with Tiger. At least as far as I > use it. The caveat is that I mostly use the word processor portion of > OOo. Note that you must have the X11 windowing system installed in > Tiger. The X11 windowing system should be in the installation disk or > downloadable from Apple. > > An alternative is to use NeoOffice/J which is a port of OOo to the Mac > using Java and the Apple Quartz windowing system. NeoOffice/J is a > little more Mac like and uses the Apple open and save dialogs and > printing. NeoOffice/J does not need or use the X11 windowing system. > > The document files between OOo and NeoOffice/J are the same so either > program will work with the files generated. I use both programs > interchangeably without any problems on both my eMac at work and G5 > dualie at home. Panther at work and Tiger at home. The only hassle is > that I work with documents on a samba server at work and the OOo file > opening and saving dialogs make it a bit of a bother to traverse the > file system to save a document to the desktop and then traverse the > file system back to the correct place in the samba serve to save the > next document. It is a small price to pay for such wonderful programs > though. Please reply to [email protected] only. -- CPH : openoffice.org contributor Maybe your question has been answered already? http://user-faq.openoffice.org/#FAQ --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
