On 5 août 07, at 12:28, Andrew Douglas Pitonyak wrote:
Jean-Christophe Helary wrote:
On 5 août 07, at 05:22, Andrew Douglas Pitonyak wrote:
www.linuxidentity.com is looking for someone to write a short
howto for installing OOo onto Windows, Linux, and Mac. I had a
long conversation with them and as follows:
Regarding the Mac version:
I don't know if it is taboo here too, but for Mac, I suggest that
a quick reference to NeoOffice is made for Mac users who need to
use OSX character input systems out of the box (like Japanese/
Chinese): it is not trivial at all for a normal user to install an
X11 input system.
http://www.neooffice.org/neojava/en/maindownload.php
Also, users should be aware that the new Mac native version
(without X11 dependency) is being _very_ actively developed and
that a pre-alpha test build is available from the official OOo
download page. It still contains a few glitches but I work with it
everyday and I've not found any major instability issues yet.
http://porting.openoffice.org/mac/download/aqua.html
Jean-Christophe Helary
Thank you very much, this is very useful.
You're welcome.
I work a lot with the OOo-ja community and here, we don't have any
issue with NeoOffice _because_ it provides access to OSX input
systems, OSX fonts and other features.
NO is always indicated in OOo books when they refer to the Mac
version (cf: http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Ja.start_mac)
For people who can use X11 out of the box (basically when the
keyboard is enough to input the necessary characters), then OOo/X11
is not so much of an issue though.
As for the native Mac OOo, I presented it at recent Open Source
Conferences (Sapporo/Kyoto) -thanks to special build Eric Bachard
provided me with- and the Mac OOo crowd here is very excited about
the release even though only an alpha will make it for the OOo
conference (cf: http://eric.bachard.free.fr/news/2007/07/aquavcl02-
aquavcl03-aquaremovefondu.html)
Cheers,
Jean-Christophe
