Alpha software another words the first test release although you
might find it stable enough to use it does have issues. Java
libraries loading although this I am not 100% sure, but over time one
would expect it to improve.
I also believe a lot of the effort which is vary minimal as it is
done by volunteers is aimed towards Intel based macs at the moment.
Eventually it will improve, but eventually could be a way off as
developers are working in their own time-frame. And to be honest
apparently the Mac developers of Office for OS X is one of the few
things M$ has done well. So, if it is needed for specific work
orientated hence dollar based it could be better to just purchase or
accept a few seconds waiting and probably some time acclimatising one
self and computer to sync with efforts of GNU community. Even better
help them develop product at a faster pace so you and others can
enjoy the effort.
But saying all that OpenOffice which NeoOffice is based runs
relatively slow at start up due to X11 loading, but once loaded I
find both reasonably functional without too much overhead. Although I
have never used M$ Office within OSX. I suppose I have no comparison
except to say that these products when I do use mainly for opening
specific file formats from Office, work. There is also some
situations where even office will not open it's own format so, I
attempt with these programs normally successfully as posted before,
and language translation works a treat.
One also has to look into why OO was developed. Creating an M$ Office
type suite within an Unix/Linux environment and relatively at a
bargain basement price something M$ will never do. NeoOffice was
developed using Java to make it more OS X compatible within an Aqua
desktop instead of being locked into an X11 window.
There are other GNU licensed bargain basement software unfortunately
not in an Office suite. Abiword for word processing, Gnumeric for a
spreadsheet, MySQL or PostgreSql for a Database, and the best letter
or document printing software - Lyx and many more. But, as with
others of this genre maybe not so polished for Aqua and Unix specific
GNU ways of operating and some do have a learning curve. Like LyX it
is a front end for LaTex which is an interpreter for Tex but it
typesets pages to perfection with minimal input from author. There is
some setting up to do and reading of tutorial documents to get the
gist of how it does it's magic. But once running you will find it
hard not to write all your correspondence with it and wonder why I
was not using it sooner.
Cheers!
`Rob...
On 25Jun2006, at 9:00 am, bill parker wrote:
Hi Folks,
Can anyone offer any explanation as to why Neo Office is clunky and
slow on the Mac? (OS 10.3.9 on two seperate machines)
Bill
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