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OpenOffice.org in Lenny
Posted by ajt on Wed 5 Sep 2007 at 12:57
Yesterday when I did my routine aptitude update/safe-upgrade on my Lenny system, OpenOffice.org was upgraded to the 2.2. This fixes the very ugly font rendering bug that the version in Etch suffered from. Fantastic!
OpenOffice.org now starts quite a bit faster and the menus and buttons now have much nicer/neater fonts and icons. Overall it's a big improvement over the unsightly offering they shipped in Etch.
I tested a few files and pressed a few buttons to see if anything had changed, and to my HORROR a Writer document I've been working on won't open any more. OpenOffice,org just sits there doing nothing but eating 99% of the CPU. Other documents both Writer and Calc open okay. I unzipped the file and it unzipped okay, KWord opened the file without error (thought it lost the formatting), and tonight I'll check with the version of OpenOffice.org in Etch.
If push comes to shove, I can fix the document from the original very evil looking Word document, it's always easier to fix a document once you have done it before, I'd just rather not have to!
OpenOffice.org now starts quite a bit faster and the menus and buttons now have much nicer/neater fonts and icons. Overall it's a big improvement over the unsightly offering they shipped in Etch.
I tested a few files and pressed a few buttons to see if anything had changed, and to my HORROR a Writer document I've been working on won't open any more. OpenOffice,org just sits there doing nothing but eating 99% of the CPU. Other documents both Writer and Calc open okay. I unzipped the file and it unzipped okay, KWord opened the file without error (thought it lost the formatting), and tonight I'll check with the version of OpenOffice.org in Etch.
If push comes to shove, I can fix the document from the original very evil looking Word document, it's always easier to fix a document once you have done it before, I'd just rather not have to!
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Posted by Anonymous (212.49.xx.xx) on Wed 5 Sep 2007 at 15:55
Latex, you should be using Latex! I was once bitten by MSWord, and have tried very hard not to rely on a word processor since. Latex will make you work harder, but it has never let me down!
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I don't work with documents regularly enough to bother with anything more than a simple word processor like OO.o Writer. In this case the source was a messy Microsoft Word document, that I cleaned and reformatted in OO.O Writer.
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Posted by dkg (216.254.xx.xx) on Thu 6 Sep 2007 at 03:13
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Latex is great, but using it certainly limits the number of people you can collaborate with on a document. And OpenOffice.org can actually be a pretty sophisticated tool if you take the time to learn some methods for using it.
I was impressed using it recently to see the ability to do really clean content/form separation (a la HTML/CSS), for example.
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The document was okay in the OpenOffice.org writer from Etch. Must be a bug in one of them!
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"It's Not Magic, It's Work"
Adam
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"It's Not Magic, It's Work"
Adam
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New OO.o in lenny today :)
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