Hi Jenny --
If you are a Mac user you may find, as many of my clients have, that
installing and using the "X11" version of OOo is not an easy affair for
the average every-day user who simply wants to make word processing
documents and spreadsheets.
OOo's Mac porting project that Guy referred you to is working really
hard (and making great progress) on a version that *will* run just like
any other application on your Mac, but it is not ready for public use
yet (although it is available for download for testers and
the-merely-curious).
**Luckily** there is a "derived" project called NeoOffice that does work
much more like applications you are used to. It's a simple installation
and much more Mac-like to use than anything that runs in X11. see
<http://www.neooffice.org>.
You might also want to subscribe to OOo's Announce list (send an email
to [EMAIL PROTECTED]) to follow the progress of the "Mac
Aqua port" (that means the upcoming release that does not use X11).
I'm afraid that -- will all due respect and gratitude to everyone
involved in the Mac port, which, after all got everything (including
NeoOffice) off to a start for us Mac users -- the X11 version of OOo has
discouraged "average Mac-end-users" from wanting to use the product.
(NOTE: This is based on direct observation when I tried encouraging
several of my support clients to "switch" to OOo.) The keystrokes are
all different, the Open/Save/etc. file dialogs are not what users know
how to navigate, copy-paste does not work ...
Guy's advice will give you a good start if you wish to try OOo under
X11. I myself used it before discovering NeoOffice, which you should
also consider.
kazar
PS: Note to Mac Porting and NeoOffice folks on both sides of the aisle
who may be reading this list -- I support OOo and I support NeoOffice,
but most of all I support the customer.
On 2007-10-28 6:37 PM, Guy Voets wrote:
Please answer -only- to the users list, so other people may help you too.
Please read the How-To files on the Mac porting pages
(http://porting.openoffice.org/mac)
Please note that you have to install the windowing utility X11 (there
are different versions for Panther-Mac OS X 10.3.x and Tiger-Mac OS X
10.4.x).
You also have to choose between a version of OpenOffice.org for Mac
PowerPC or Mac Intel.
If you install the wrong version of X11 or OOo, it will not work.
Do you get any further with this information?
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