Re: [newbie] Staroffice Squashed!

2001-06-03 Per discussione Daniel Meier
Hey David, I've got the same problems and have not been able to find a solution so far. I've tested it with the older X and it still made crunches up StarOffice/OpenOffice. My guess is that internally confuses cm and inch, but I have no idea how to change that. BTW: Changing fonts, sizes, or

Re: [newbie] Star Office Can't Save

2001-05-25 Per discussione Daniel Meier
Hi there, Neville Cobb wrote: After Install of 8.0 I could not save a document to a vfat partition, neither could root. However I can write to it using the file manager. I have the same problem and unfortunately have not found a solution yet. The permissions seem fine and all other

[newbie] Re: StarOffice 5.2 and Mandrake 8.0 - major problems!

2001-05-22 Per discussione Daniel Meier
Oops. I guess you're right (I grew up with the metric system and European letter sizes..). Unfortunately this insight doesn't solve my problem. However, it means that SO's horizontal ruler does not measure correctly - and the placement of letters on the screen is screwed up. I wonder whether

[newbie] StarOffice 5.2 and Mandrake 8.0 - major problems!

2001-05-21 Per discussione Daniel Meier
Hi there, a few weeks back I installed Mandrake 8.0 (fresh, clean install). Some days later I installed StarOffice 5.2 (from sun.com) and found it to be unusable. Here are the symptoms: Any text I enter or any text in opened documents doesn't display correctly. The letters themselves are