Re: [PLUG] OpenOffice 1.1 upgrade

["Arthur S. Alexion" <arthur@alexion.com>]

I am a word processor user, not a file viewer like Toby, do enhanced 
usefulness would be a good thing.  Well, I guess I will have to dig into 
upgrading freetype.  There was an OOo channel for Red-Carpet which would 
have solved the dependency problems,  but I haven't been ble to get most 
of the Red-Carpet channels for a month or so -- except for the 
Red-Hat-7.2 and Red Carpet channels, I keep geting download/server 
unavailable errors.

W. Chris Shank wrote:

> 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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