As you are not subscribed you may not have seen that: On Sun March 19 2006 11:12, Jonathon Coombes wrote: > 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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