Open Office Writer issue-fuzziness!

[Don Minow]

For many years I have been a user of the NeoOffice suite of applications and 
have been satisfied with their performance and operation.



I purchased a new iMac desktop this summer and have noted some 
incompatibilities with it and NeoOffice. I downloaded Apache Open Office 
version 4.1.4 and now use it as my everyday application for text and 
spreadsheets. The iMac is using IO S version 10.13.2/High Sierra
.


However, I have an open issue with OpenOffice Writer. When I enter data, after 
a few seconds the screen text becomes “fuzzy”, obscured and hard to read. In 
addition, I note numerous dim triangles in the margins and body of the screen 
text.  I can clear the "fuzzyness" by 'Selecting All'; the text becomes comes 
clear and legible.  However, the "fuzziness" returns after a few seconds.


I have searched the Open Office help screens and a early version of the users 
manual but I cannot find any reference to the cause and correction method to 
eliminate the fuzziness.


 Thanks in advance for your help.


Don Minow
dmi...@comcast.net


Re: Open Office for mac

[Steven Ahlers]

Gloria,

Assuming you downloaded it from OpenOffice.org, opened the DMG and dragged the 
icon to the Application Folder. Then you are experiencing the Gatekeeper 
function of the Operating System (not Safari).

To overcome this simply Right-click (Control-click) on the icon in the 
Application Folder and then follow the subsequent menus to allow the program to 
open, you should only need to do this the first time. 

Steve

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> On Dec 29, 2017, at 8:36 AM, gloria monaghan 
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> 
> Hello I successfully downloaded apache open office for my mac but Safari 
> won’t let me open it. Is there anything I can do so as to use Apache open 
> office? for my high school English classes Thank you, Gloria
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Re: Open Office for mac

[Larry Gusaas]

On 2017-12-29, 10:36 AM gloria monaghan wrote concerning "Open Office for mac":


Hello I successfully downloaded apache open office for my mac but Safari won’t 
let me open it. Is there anything I can do so as to use Apache open office? for 
my high school English classes Thank you, Gloria


From the release notes at 
https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/OOOUSERS/AOO+4.1.4+Release+Notes#AOO4.1.4ReleaseNotes-KnownIssues


   *Known Issues*

   *For macOS users:*

   Apache OpenOffice 4.1.4 will be flagged by the Gatekeeper facility in 
Mac OS X. This is
   a feature to help guard against malware on recent Mac OS X systems.

 * For Mac OS X up to 10.11 "El Capitan": There is a procedure laid out 
at the
   following link to allow applications not installed from the Mac App 
store to run.
   See the Mac support article.
 * For Mac OS X 10.12 "Sierra": In Finder, Control-click or right click 
the icon of
   the app. Select Open from the top of contextual menu that appears. 
Click Open in
   the dialog box. If prompted, enter an administrator name and 
password.This is
   needed just the first time you launch Apache OpenOffice.

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Larry I. Gusaas
Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan Canada
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Fw: problem with text file

[Daniel]

This message is for Brian Barker to thank him for his help. Hagar suggested the 
address to reach Brian.Daniel K.

 On Sunday, December 24, 2017 3:12 PM, Daniel  
wrote:
 

 Hi Brian,Thank you for the prompt and detailed reply and suggestion.You'll be 
happy to know (as I am) that I actually backed up the file on a separate flash 
drive. So I can retrieve about 95% of the text. I'll confess that I am not 
always that conscientious about backing up files So that will be a good object 
lesson.As I checked into the problem further I noticed that the last time I 
saved the file it ended up in my picture folder. How??  I have no idea. That's 
the file that is giving me the problem. It still shows the file type as 
odt.Anyways, Thanks again for the suggestions.I'll try them of course.Dan K. 

On Sunday, December 24, 2017 2:51 PM, Brian Barker 
 wrote:
 

 At 13:36 24/12/2017 -0500, you wrote:
>I opened a text file in 4.1.3 and instead of the text it shows 
>### etc. I did not have this problem before. Anyone knows 
>what is happening and how to get a readable file back?

Yes and no.

Those hash marks are what you see if you attempt to interpret an 
unused area of your system's disk as text. What your operating system 
is offering you as the document file is an unused area of the disk 
and not a valid file. Sadly, there may not be any way to recover 
anything from what you have: it's very likely that there is nothing 
available to retrieve. Some error - either a user error or a software 
glitch or a hardware fault - has corrupted your document file.

Go back to your most recent back-up copy of the document file and 
continue working from there. Note that, because things like this can 
happen at any time, you need to keep regular, reliable back-up copies 
of all your files on some external device - perhaps a flash drive or 
an external drive or somewhere in the cloud. Put simply, any document 
of which you have only one copy you don't really have at all. You may 
want to keep hard-copy back-ups too, so that any document could be 
reconstructed if absolutely necessary. I'm not preaching here: we all 
make mistakes and do not keep recent enough back-up copies, but 
unless you have these you will lose work in exactly the way that you 
probably have done.

Try this:
o In OpenOffice, go to Tools | Options... | OpenOffice | Paths.
o Make a note of the path shown for Backups.
o Outside OpenOffice - using your operating system's facilities - 
navigate to that folder.
o Is there a file with the same name as your document file but with 
the .bak extension?
o If so, *make a copy of this in one of your own folders*, rename the 
copy to change its extension to the original (.odt?), and open this 
file in OpenOffice. Continue working from there.

If there is no back-up file present, it may be that you do not have 
this option selected. Go to Tools | Options... | Load/Save | General 
| Save, and tick "Always create a backup copy". That will be no help 
for the present problem, of course, but might help you in the future.

You will want to investigate the true cause of the failure. Your 
computer manufacturer will have provided diagnostics - possibly on an 
optical disk that came with the computer or available on its web 
site. Very often, such diagnostics are available in the system and 
can be stimulated by operating an appropriate key during system 
start-up - before your operating system starts. This varies between 
computer manufacturers. In addition, your operating system will have 
diagnostics which you will want to run. Unless you correct any errors 
now, you will continue to see file corruption.

If by a "text file" you mean a plain text file, there may be some 
point in searching the disk for remnants of the file and stitching 
them together. But if - as I imagine - you mean a text (Writer) 
document file in OpenOffice's native Open Document Format format, 
there is little point in doing this. Because of the internal format 
of these document files, it is practically impossible to recover 
whatever remains of your document file on the disk. Others may 
recommend you to obtain and install file recovery software and to use 
that to attempt to recover your file. Although this might recover 
parts, those are no use to you without more details that will have 
been lost. Files are saved in sections, very probably not contiguous, 
and there will be no way to discover which order the sections are in; 
more significantly there will be no way to discover how much of the 
last section is file and how much is garbage. So I don't recommend 
this. The important thing to understand is that the file as saved on 
the disk does not have the document contents in immediately readable form.

Sorry that this is not more positive.

I trust this helps.

Brian Barker - privately



   

   

Re: Open Office for mac

[Howard Blum]

I'm assuming you get the error message about the downloaded app. Go to the
system preferences after the error message pops up. Click on security. You
will see an option to open it anyway. It will ask for your administration
password. After that you should be able to open it.

On Dec 29, 2017 8:58 AM, "gloria monaghan" 
wrote:

> Hello I successfully downloaded apache open office for my mac but Safari
> won’t let me open it. Is there anything I can do so as to use Apache open
> office? for my high school English classes Thank you, Gloria
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Open Office for mac

[gloria monaghan]

Hello I successfully downloaded apache open office for my mac but Safari won’t 
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my high school English classes Thank you, Gloria
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problems

[sacredasia]

Daer support
I  Installed ones Softmaker FreeOffice Program and made a big file in the plan 
maker program 
Now I want to go back to open Office as I love this Programm so much …..
Unfortunately I can not open the planmaker Programm with open Office calc 
program or Transfer These files into open Office ……
I send you the file in Attachement and would be very happy happy to help me so 
I can desinstall the other Programm and still use this file as it is very 
important for me…
Thank you very much
Sombat

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