On 19/03/2006, at 8:36 PM, Jon Silk wrote:
Firstly, thank you for the response!
I returned my Mac Mini for the new Intel Mac Mini with OS 10.4.5.
I have Open Office running off of X11, which I had to custom
install from the OS X 10.4.5 installation DVD.
I have a few questions:
Hi Jon,
Lets see how we go with answers for your questions:
1) When I open MS Word documents in my Open Office, the characters
and spacing shift; my resume, for example, went from being one page
in MS Word, to over 1.5 pages in Open Office. What gives?
The most common cause I have seen for this is that you are using a
font that is not available on the platform and it guesstimates what
font to use. This causes some differences in the font used and
changes to the size.
2) Also, there is a delay in time from clicking on a menu to it
actually opening - it seems slow. It also takes a long time to boot
up the application after double clicking the icon. Is there a
patch that would speed this up?
The slow startup is probably because you have to start X11 first, so
there is no way around this at the moment. However, the clicking on
the menu taking time seems rather strange. The only time I have seen
this on my mac is when its memory is under heavy use. Does it happen
if OpenOffice.org is the only application running (with X11 of course)?
3) NeoOffice and AbiWord do not seem to be Intel compatible, and as
far as I'm aware Open Office is the best Open Source Microsoft Word
alternative available for my Mac. Are there any other applications
I should consider?
I believe this is still in progress for the conversion at this stage,
as for other apps, I don't know any as yet.
Regards
Jonathon
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