Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (2114 mails)

[Bernie Gardner <w1az@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Friday 24 October 2008, Basil Chupin wrote:
> Anton Aylward wrote:
> > My autoupdate has installed 3.0 and its a bomb.
> >
> > I tried opening some files I was working on last week with 2.4 and it
> > crashed.
> >
> > Restarting causes a recovery, that then crashes.
> >
> > Trying to open without a document causes the recovery of the old
> > document to run ... and then a crash.
> >
> > Updates seem to be daily, but this is distressing in the mean time.
> > Definitely a work-stopper!
> >
> > David C. Rankin said the following on 10/24/2008 02:10 AM:
> > > Basil Chupin wrote:
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> > > 2.4.1 has been great. I'm in no hurry for 3.0 from a "need new features"
> > > standpoint, but I can't wait to see the improvements.
>
> Strange, working perfectly here with all documents including ones
> created using MS Word.
>
> Ciao.

I have been using OpenOffice 2.4.1 Impress to edit powerpoint files.  It had 
worked well until recently when a particular existing ppt file caused it to 
crash.  The automatic recovery didn't work.  So I installed the 3.0 version 
from the Suse repository.  It opened the file ok, but I quickly found that if 
I used anything other than the default, plain background master slide, it 
would not save as a powerpoint file.  Since I need them to be useable in MS 
Office, that was not acceptable.  As an experiment, I removed the OpenSuse 
version of OpenOffice and installed the version from the OpenOffice site.  
This installed into my root directory, and seems to work ok.  I can save 
powerpoint files with no problem.  The same file occasionally causes OO to 
crash, but the automatic recovery works, and even provides a useful reporting 
option.  So the question is, why an Opensuse branded version which doesn't 
work when the OpenOffice version works just fine.  The only thing I get with 
the Suse version is automatic entries in the KDE menu, but I can change those 
links myself!

Bernie

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