W. Chris Shank on Wed, 30 Jul 2003 19:52:06 -0400


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Re: [PLUG] OpenOffice 1.1 upgrade


I disagree. OOo 1.1 has a lot of useful extra's mostly in the form of
taking less steps to accomplish a task. You may think of this as a minor
difference - but for my clients who are used to Word, telling them that
the equiv feature takes 2 menus and 4 mouse click for MS's one or two
click is not good. They do complain and I don't blame them. 
I've been using OOo B2 for PPC for quite a while and have been very
happy with it.



On Wed, 2003-07-30 at 17:05, Toby DiPasquale wrote:
> Arthur S. Alexion wrote:
> > I've been running OOo 1.0.2 on Red Hat 7.2 without problems.  Tried to 
> > upgrade to OOo 1.1 RC, and ran into compatibility problems with my 
> > current 2.0.3 version of freetype.  Seems OOo =>1.1 will require 
> > freetype >= 2.0.6.  I found some freetype 2.0.9 RPMs, but am having the 
> > usual dependency domino effect.  Question: any OOo users out there using 
> > 1.1 with an opinion whether upgrading is worth it under my circumstnces?
> > 
> 
> Unless you want the Flash export feature that bad, I'd say chill and wait for 
> the release and upgrade then. Its not that much better than OOo 1.0.3 which is 
> what I'm back to now. Of course, I only use it when people mistakenly send me 
> something important in one of MS's formats so I don't know how typical my 
> experiences are. HTH
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W. Chris Shank
ACE Technology Group, LLC
http://www.acetechgroup.com
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