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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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