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-----Original Message----- From: CPHennessy [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sun 3/19/2006 4:43 PM To: [email protected]; Jon Silk Subject: Re: [users] New Questions - Character Shifting, Delay/Slow Processing Speed, & Mac Intel Compatibility 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. I'm using Times New Roman font size 11, which both applications (Word and Open Office) have-- I don't understand why the spacing is shifting. > > 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)? Yes, this happens when Open Office is the only app running... At most, I'll have Firefox and perhaps MS Word open simultaneously - but this happens when neither of those are running. > > 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 Thanks again for your help! Please reply to [email protected] only. -- CPH : openoffice.org contributor Maybe your question has been answered already? http://user-faq.openoffice.org/#FAQ
