At 10:25 01/09/2007 -0400, John Locke wrote:
I recently installed OpenOffice.Org on my PC (Windows XP) and after
installation had a suite of application icons for each of the
components. However when I installed on my daughters Mac OSX 10.4,
Intel MacBook I ended up with a folder with basically three items in
it: a Readme, Licenses, and a 'large' icon named
OpenOffice.Org >>Applications (or something similar). (We also
installed X11 successfully.) I copied that 'large' icon to the
applications folder but I can not find program icons for any of the
installed components. When we click on the single one, Writer
launches and runs properly. After poking around, I did find that you
can launch Calc, Impress etc from the File New dialog in Writer
however that seems kinda klugy to always need to run Writer first.
After poring through the various FAQ's (again a bit overwhelmed by
the sheer number of support locations) I was able to find one
cryptic comment that indicated I should append _Calc instead of
_Writer on the command line. Thing is I'm not launching anything
from a command line. Thanks in advance, any insight appreciated.
I agree with you that it is odd that installation of OpenOffice on a
Mac - unlike at least on Windows - does not provide separate icons
for the separate components of the application. But it is worth
repeating what others have said: that when you start OpenOffice the
only (straightforward) way that you can, you have not started Writer,
in fact, but have instead started OpenOffice with a blank text (i.e.
Writer) document. You can see this if you simply close that
document: the application name in the title bar will change from
OpenOffice.org Writer to just OpenOffice.org. You may be thinking
that you somehow need to open Calc, say, before you can open an
existing spreadsheet document, but you don't.
But that doesn't solve your problem. As a possible workaround, you
could create templates for other components from which you could
start the application in each mode, as it were. Here is how to do
this in my Windows version; I imagine that something very similar
will work for your Mac.
o Start OpenOffice.
o Use File | New > to create a new document of the appropriate type:
let's say a spreadsheet.
o Go to File | Templates > | Save... and give your new, empty
template a name, e.g. "Calc".
o Select OK.
o Now go to File | Templates > | Organize..., open My Templates, and
select the new "Calc" template.
o In the Commands menu, select Export Template... .
o Save the new template in a convenient place - on the desktop?
o Close the Template Management window.
o Repeat for other OpenOffice components if desired.
If you now double-click one of these new icons, OpenOffice will start
(if it is not already running) and create a new empty document of the
required type. For existing documents, it is usually easier just to
double-click the document itself, of course.
I trust this helps.
Brian Barker
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