On Sat, 19 Dec 1998, Tom Carlile wrote:
> I was not very impressed with WordPerfect8. The installation was
> easy. When opening Office97 documents it prompts for conversion, but
> the conversion didn't work very well, many parts of the text were
> screwed up and unreadable, formatting destroyed. WP doesn't seem able
> to handle text very well, I can't even select a new font from the
> pulldown, I click the pulldown arrow, the pulldown draws then
> destroys, I click and hold, I get nothing.
I think the import and the font/menu are related problems, and they
definately aren't with WP8, I suspect either your system, or a WP8/your
system interaction problem (libraries, anyone?)
> I didn't bother trying to
> get WP to open Powerpoint or Excel stuff, from what I've read it
> claims to be just a word processor, not a suite like StarOffice.
Well, they have Suites, called "PerfectOffice" but I suspect the other
pieces haven't been ported yet (the registration for WP8 asked if we
wanted to see those other pieces on Unix.
> Some say that is better because it is faster and less bloat, but
> StarOffice loads plenty fast for me and definitely handles Office
> imports better.
oh, i'd like to know that trick.
> One major problem I'm having with StarOffice5.0 is that I can ONLY run
> the program as root, which is a bad bad thing. When the soffice init
> script is run as a user a StarOffice screen comes up and "verifies"
> and "fixes" my StarOffice installation, whatever that means. As root I
> chowned and chgrped the whole install tree to my user and it still
> didn't work ( I was thinking maybe it needed write perms for scratch
> or something). I don't know what to do next and am not satisfied with
> having to su everytime I want to play with it. Anyone had a similar
> problem? and fixed it?
as the user, you have to run the setup -- which puts a bunch more of their
bloat in the user's directory (I think ~5M of crap -- all to save a few
preferences). Then you can run the office.
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