Rodney D. Myers wrote:
On Nov 8, 2007, at 3:09 PM, Al Woodland wrote:
Hello -
I have downloaded installed latest Open Office on new Imac with
Leopard for a factory document distribution system today.
I opened Excel and Word files created on "Office for Mac" & Tiger,
on Open Office - the formatting
was perfect and all looked ok.
Is there anything that I need to know using Leopard?
Will there be a Mac Leopard version of Open Office?
Thanks,
OpenOffice.org 2.3 works just fine under Leopard.
To answer your 2nd question. Why leopard specific? Nothing is to be
gained by tuning to leopard, and leaving out the previous versions of
OS X.
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Al,
OOo 2.3 works fine on Leopard, yes, but only after X11 on Leopard is
given some tweaking. If you run OOo with the preinstalled version of X11
on a new Leopard install you will find that OOo doesn't act or look as
smooth as it could--window slow to repaint on resizing, menus scroll
down slowly when chosen, etc.
Visit www.x.org/wiki/XDarwin for directions how to install the most
recent version of the crucial Xquartz binary. This is an active project
so check back frequently to get the most recent update, which as of
today is 1.2a8.
Even after that, you may find some delay and eventually a message box
saying "Command timed out" when you start OOo directly from its package
in Applications. Clear the message box and OOo starts fine. It is really
annoying, but this is an X11 bug and not due to OOo.
I personally prefer to add X11.app to my Login Items (go to Accounts in
System Preferences), so that X11 runs in the background at login. That
way starting OOo is faster because it doesn't have to find and launch
X11 first. I even get fancier by adding the paths to start Writer, Calc,
and Impress directly with the X11 Applications menu. Let me know
directly if I can be of further help.
Les
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