[CS-FSLUG] Open Office on Mac OS X 10.5.2

[Jason Franklin]

The subject line states my version of OS X.  = 10.5.2

I did neglect to mention the OOo version - 2.4

It may resolve some issues....if it can be made to work.

Jason P. Franklin
Christian/Husband/Father/Missionary
Westwood Bible Fellowship
pastor.jason at westwoodbf.com
web: www.westwoodbf.com

On Apr 11, 2008, at 2:12 PM, Frank Bax wrote:

> Jason Franklin wrote:
>> Can't get OpenOffice to work.  I have X11 on my machine.  Looked at
>> OpenOffice documentation.  Can't see anything I may have missed.
>> Anyone out there use OpenOffice on Mac?  How'd you get it to work?
>
>
> You did not mention which versions of OOo and OS X you are using.
> 	Tiger (10.4.x) - XFree86 not installed by default
> 	Leopard (10.5.x) - Xorg 7.2 installed by default
>
> My brother-in-law (who has a Mac) dig some digging into this recently.
> He found a site that said OOo231 came out while Leopard was still in
> beta; so it is seriously flawed and does not work with final release  
> of
> Leopard; but we can't find that site now.
>
> OpenOffice uses X11 windowing system; so it's not native for Mac.   
> Check
> the docs you were reading to see which X11 they were written for.
>
> OpenOffice 2.3 does not recognize JRE (Java) under Leopard so some
> things are broken (Wizards, Base module).
>
> My brother-in-law switched to NeoOffice - a fork/port of OpenOffice  
> for
> Mac that does not use X11; but is always a version or so behind.
>
> I manage many systems (about 70-80) that run OOo on various platforms
> (Win98, WinXP, SuSE93) without any major issues; but no Mac's yet.
>
> OOo 2.4 was recently released; perhaps it fixes some things.
>
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