This haas happened to me before, in OOo and other programs, on Windows and Mac. Usually, the older the software/hardware/OS, the more common it is. Windows NT is old (at least 6 years old) and therefore, I would say it is more likely on that machine (usually older OSes are on older machines, so it's likely an older box).
That being said, the versions of OpenOffice.org alluded to in the orginial post, they seem to be numbers from the Beta-testing not at all ready for prime time line. Therefore, my advice would be to install OpenOffice.org 1.1.4, which has been out for a few months, and is production ready. Some may argue to wait for 2.0 which is due out "soon". However, people were saying that over a year ago, and not so much as a release candidate yet. We haven't even seen 1.1.5 yet, and it would, of course, come out before 2.0. (Assuming, of course, that eiither release ever actually happens.) So, again, grab a copy of the stable release, version 1.1.4, from the website. It's free, and it should help you with you problem. If not, you might need more video RAM, and if the machine is as old as I think it is, it probably has shared RAM, so you need more RAM in general. In that case, (if you can't/don't want to up the RAM in your machine), try AbiWord ( http://www.abiword.com/ ) It's much less RAM intensive and it is just as free as OpenOffice.org. (Although it is only a word processor, and not a whole suite, but if all you need is that, then AbiWord is the way to go!) Hope That Helps! -Chad Smith On 9/7/05, Andrew Fisk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I would make sure that you have the correct video drivers for your > video card installed, NT was (is??) not really built as a desktop os, > did not do a very good job of auto detecting video cards, and when > used as a server OS was quite happy with a 640x480 vga setting. > > > > Andy > Spitfire Computer Services > 441 Beaver Street > Suite 202 > Sewickley, PA 15143 > Phone (412) 749-0162 > Fax: (412) 749-0203 > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > www.spitcomp.com <http://www.spitcomp.com> > > On Sep 7, 2005, at 12:07 PM, Robert Volke wrote: > > > First off, I am using openoffice version 109 on one NT machine, and > > version 125 on another NT machine, and the following problem occurs in > > both. When I'm editing my documents, it is very common for weird bits > > of images, such as darker lines, distorted text, or portions of a > > deleted or moved image, to remain floating around. When I scroll down > > out of sight from these mistakes, then scroll back to them, they are > > generally gone. Also, if I just go and print the document with the > > distortion visible, it prints fine as if there is no distortion. > > Another distortion problem occurs when I paste a screenshot into my > > Writer documents. Often the text in the image will look incredibly > > small and will be missing portions of letters so that it looks quite > > messy, and it will not look better when you scroll out of sight and > > come > > back. But if I print the document, the image will print out fine. Is > > there some setting I can configure to correct this problem? This is a > > serious issue since we would like to be able to see on the screen > > exactly what would be printing so that we can make necessary changes > > without having to continually print the documents for verification > > (quite costly for larger documents). Thank you for any help you can > > give. > > > > Robert Volke > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > > > > > -- -Chad Smith
