2007/11/28, Rodney D. Myers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > On Nov 27, 2007, at 4:39 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > Hello< I have been using openoffice for a while on my pc, but in 2 > > weeks I > > will be getting a MAc > > and I would like to know if the software is Mac compatible? > > thank you > > Miguel > > > In a simple answer -> YES > > Search through the archives to see what people are doing, issues if > you get 10.5.0/10.5.1, and things to do to "fix" any issues you may > encounter. > > --- > Rodney D. Myers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >
Hello Miguel, Welcome to Mac! Since the Leopard (Mac OS X 10.5) is brand new, there are a few 'children's deseases', that affect the way OpenOffice.org runs on this OS. It's mainly a time-out when you start up OOo (the first time?), some slowness,... Before starting to install OpenOffice.org on your Mac, it's good to look around a bit at the How-To's on the Mac porting pages: http://porting.openoffice.org/mac The native version (Aqua) of OOo for the Mac is still in its develpment stages. You can use it at your own risk, certainly not for productivity tasks, ans there are a number of things it can't do yet, that the other versions of OOo can. So you have to run OOo on Mac with the windowing program X11 (now also called XDarwin or Xquartz). It's just a utility that starts up before OOo does (triggered when you double click the OOo icon). It opens a window called xterm (that you can simply close by clicking on thge red button), after which OOo opens. Close the X11 program before closing down your Mac. Now what about the young Leopard woes? The best option is to keep Leopard and X11 updated. Leopard has already had an update (10.5.1), while the Leopard version of X11 (or XDarwin, Xquartz) has undergone a series of updates. See: http://www.x.org/wiki/XDarwin Some users on the list said that starting up OOo goes smoother and faster when you first start X11 (it sits in the Applications/Utilities folder), then OOo (while normally clicking on OOo will trigger X11). If all this seems a bit complicated, don't worry, it will probably go smoothly, and it's really rewarding as OOo is a great office suite. -- Guy using dutch OOo 2.3 m221 on a iMac Intel DualCore Tiger and brazilian OOo 2.3 RC 3 on a G4 PPC Powerbook Tiger -- please reply only to [email protected] -- Dodoes can't afford to have headaches
