On 2007-11-11 9:46 AM, Leslie Wright wrote:
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.
And if you're not familiar with the X11 environment but are familiar
with Macs, you may have some serious issues using OOo in X11. For
instance, keystroke combos use Ctrl instead of Cmd, and you will not be
able to copy/paste text between OOo and other applications that run
outside of the X11 "shell" (or whatever it is).
So you also have two other choices:
try the early release (it's only an Alpha, so be careful, but I can say
I use it myself without too much trouble) of OOo for Aqua (available
from the Download pages), or download and try NeoOffice 2.2, which has
been in release for a good while now and does run as an Aqua application.
In my experience, trying to be productive with an application that runs
in X11 on a Mac is nearly impossible, most especially because of the
copy-paste issues, the non-Mac file dialogs, and the keystroke confusions.
kazar
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