On Thursday 17 September 2009 12:17:22 pm Greg Freemyer wrote:
On Thu, Sep 17, 2009 at 12:14 AM, David C. Rankin
wrote: On Thursday 10 September 2009 11:18:00 am Mark Misulich wrote:
Hi, I am just writing to ask if anyone has any experience with Open Office Writer. I am trying to use it for the first time to make up a newsletter, as I usually use WinXp and Word. I find its performance to be so bad it is just about unusable. Is this the normal way it operates, or is there something wrong or otherwise necessary to make it operate properly?
Here is what its doing: When I try to move fontwork around to place on the title page, the computer chugs and the movements become jerky. I can't accurately place the fontwork. It is ridiculously slow as well.
Pretty much any other operation, such as saving the file will also do the same, it causes the computer to chug and takes a long time to complete.
My computer is a Dell Dimension 4600 with a P4 2.66 ghz processor, and has 3.6 gb ram.
Thanks
Your box has more than enough horse power.
OpenOffice hasn't worked right since version 2.4.1. It has been one screw-up after another. Either indents don't work so all your Word documents are left justified (no matter what you try) or OpenOffice hangs and you lose your work.
If you are running 11.0, just go download the files from the update repository and reinstall 2.4. I was hoping that 3.1.1 would be better, but I lost 30 minutes of work yesterday on a hang/crash. I think I'll go back to 2.4 until things get better.
-- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.
If OO 2.4 is really faster than 3.1, I would not mind going back to it for at least a test.
Is there a 11.1 repo for OO 2.4?
I tried to look in the build service, but it is a major headache because of all the "openoffice" repositories. (75 pages worth).
Greg
It has been my saving grace while OO 3 tries to outgrow its training wheels. Personally, I think OO 2.4 runs circles around OO 3.1 -- and -- I don't lose work with it crashing. For example, just go download OO 2.4 from: http://download.opensuse.org/update/11.0/rpm/x86_64/ Keep in handy in a directory: 14:55 nirvana:/srv/www/download/openSUSE_11.0> ls -1 x86_64/oo24/ OpenOffice_org-2.4.0.14-1.2.x86_64.rpm OpenOffice_org-base-2.4.0.14-1.2.x86_64.rpm OpenOffice_org-branding-upstream-2.4.0.14-1.2.x86_64.rpm OpenOffice_org-calc-2.4.0.14-1.2.x86_64.rpm OpenOffice_org-devel-2.4.0.14-1.2.x86_64.rpm OpenOffice_org-draw-2.4.0.14-1.2.x86_64.rpm OpenOffice_org-filters-2.4.0.14-1.2.x86_64.rpm OpenOffice_org-gnome-2.4.0.14-1.2.x86_64.rpm (You have to get this from the oss repository) OpenOffice_org-icon-themes-2.4.0.14-1.1.noarch.rpm OpenOffice_org-icon-themes-prebuilt-2.4.0.14-1.2.x86_64.rpm OpenOffice_org-impress-2.4.0.14-1.2.x86_64.rpm OpenOffice_org-kde-2.4.0.14-1.2.x86_64.rpm OpenOffice_org-mailmerge-2.4.0.14-1.2.x86_64.rpm OpenOffice_org-math-2.4.0.14-1.2.x86_64.rpm OpenOffice_org-mono-2.4.0.14-1.2.x86_64.rpm OpenOffice_org-officebean-2.4.0.14-1.2.x86_64.rpm OpenOffice_org-pyuno-2.4.0.14-1.2.x86_64.rpm OpenOffice_org-sdk-2.4.0.14-1.2.x86_64.rpm OpenOffice_org-sdk-doc-2.4.0.14-1.2.x86_64.rpm OpenOffice_org-testtool-2.4.0.14-1.2.x86_64.rpm OpenOffice_org-writer-2.4.0.14-1.2.x86_64.rpm NOTE: the install will fail if you don't have: OpenOffice_org-icon-themes-2.4.0.14-1.1.noarch.rpm Somebody screwed up the dependencies when they moved icon-themes to icon- themes-prebuilt. After the files are in place, just: rpm -e $(rpm -qa | grep OpenOffice_org) && rpm -Uvh *rpm And you will have a reliable well functioning oo again... Works like a champ! -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. Rankin Law Firm, PLLC 510 Ochiltree Street Nacogdoches, Texas 75961 Telephone: (936) 715-9333 Facsimile: (936) 715-9339 www.rankinlawfirm.com -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org