On Mar 1, 2008, at 20:33 , Madeleine Hibbs wrote:
My daughter has a new IMAC. Bottom of the line with the following platform listed: mac osx v10.5 Leopard. What version of OpenOffice would be appropriate?
The current stable version for Mac [2.3] has issues with Leopard's Java, which will lead to some shortcomings with Base [our database module]. It is otherwise quite serviceable. Please make sure your system is updated [OS should be 10.5.2]. Open Office version 2.4, which is expected soon, will solve the Java problem. Also, the stable version of OpenOffice currently requires the 'X11' GUI. Leopard has X11 installed by default, but that version has significant problems. The open source version of X11 gets updated every few weeks, and is available from: http://trac.macosforge.org/ projects/xquartz/wiki/Releases . Grab the most recent X11 package [currently 2.1.4] to improve your OpenOffice experience. There is also a test version of OpenOffice that bypasses X11 in favor of OS X's built in 'Aqua' GUI, but it is not considered stable. If you wish to try it, however, it is available. There is another project [NeoOffice] that uses OpenOffice source code to compile an Aqua native version, but they are not otherwise associated with us. Their versions run behind ours [they currently offer V2.2]
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