2007/1/15, John Wishart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
Guy, Thank you for getting back to me re: X11 for Open Office. I think you guys are providing a great service for us. I feel like a idiot because I still can't install the X11 part. I got your PDF and found the How to Install for Tiger. It says insert "insert the installation DVD of Tiger" I'm confused. If Tiger is already installed wouldn't X11 already be on my Tiger SystemX? On p. 3/17 It shows OpenOffice.org header and asks me to find the X11 application in applications file In Open Office or OSX upgrade DVD? I can't read the page graphic. I assume utilities/applications files are in there. I apologize but I'm totally confused and feel very foolish. I hope you can help. John
Hello John please respond to the users list, as more volunteers on the list may try to help you out. X11 is among the 'extras' on your installation DVD. It isn't installed by default because the people at Apple don't think you'll need the program (and you don't, if you only run Apple software). On my Tiger Install DVD, the X11User.pkg you need is to be found under Mac OSX Install DVD > System > Installation > Packages > X11User.pkg (!!not the SDK package = for developers!!) You can find the package with Spotlight (magnifying glass in blue circle, top right of your screen) or with the Search option in the Finder, once you've introduced the DVD into your computer. Clicking on the package will start the installation program, that should put X11 in your Applications > Utilities folder all by itself. Just let it do its job. The other thing you have to do is installing OpenOffice.org. After downloading, you click on the dmg file. You then get a Finder window with the OOo icon, drag this to your Applications folder. The Readme and Licence files you can also drag to a folder that is convenient for you. You can put the icon of OOo in your dock: go to Applications folder, localise OOo, click once on the icon and drag it to the dock. Now you can start OpenOffice.org simply by double-clicking on its icon in the dock. The first time, starting OOo will take some time. It always fires up X11 first, then it will ask (anly the first time) if you want to install Apple fonts to be used by OOo - Yes. Then it works at the fonts and finally opens a blank Writer screen. Other components of OOo can be found by going to File > New, where you get the choice between Writer (text), Calc (spreadsheet), Impress (presentation à la PowerPoint), Draw, Math, HTML-writer, and Base (database) Hope you will be able to get started with this notes... -- Guy using dutch OOo 2.1 RC 2 on a iMac Intel DualCore Tiger and dutch OOo 2.1 RC 1 on a G4 PPC Powerbook Tiger -- please reply only to users@openoffice.org -- Dodoes can't afford to have headaches
