Re: OpenOffice Impress

2006-12-28 Thread Phil!Gregory
* Hakim Cassimally [2006-12-21 19:04 +0100]: > This clever default didn't quite work for me, as I was in the rather > unusual situation of preparing a presentation on one computer and > presenting on another (silly of me really). Of course, rather than > storing confusing relative filenames, OOo

Re: OpenOffice Impress

2006-12-21 Thread Michael Poole
Hakim Cassimally writes: > So, I got to enjoy mindless pointing and clicking, save the file, and > then Export it to PDF, because even OOo isn't clever enough to fuck up > a PDF file. Yet. Something very regularly hoses font kerning in OOo->PDF conversions that I have tried, causing two or three

Re: OpenOffice Impress

2006-12-21 Thread David King
It's almost impossible to do anything else on my laptop if NeoOffice (the MacOSX port) is open. Loading it takes a long, long, long time. Granted, my laptop could use more memory, but I suspect I could never buy enough for this starving beast of an application. I'm amazed that you can even keep

Re: OpenOffice Impress

2006-12-21 Thread Jarkko Hietaniemi
> It's almost impossible to do anything else on my laptop if NeoOffice > (the MacOSX port) is open. Loading it takes a long, long, long time. > Granted, my laptop could use more memory, but I suspect I could never > buy enough for this starving beast of an application. It's an office suite. Writ

Re: OpenOffice Impress

2006-12-21 Thread Ann Barcomb
On Thu, 21 Dec 2006, Hakim Cassimally wrote: [...] Though it made a massive leap from the 0.90 that was frankly unusable to being apparently useful in 2.0 it has a few, er, rough edges. [...] I'm impressed that you have stuck with OpenOffice long enough to develop such a list of things you hat

OpenOffice Impress

2006-12-21 Thread Hakim Cassimally
Yes, "Impress" is the word. Though it made a massive leap from the 0.90 that was frankly unusable to being apparently useful in 2.0 it has a few, er, rough edges. OpenOffice's crash recovery feature is put to good use on my Ubuntu Edgy installation as complex actions, such as entering text will