Do you guys know a PowerPoint equivalent on Linux? I don't want to use stupid flaky open office and nor do I want to run Wine. If you guys have any other suggestions it would be great. BTW, Google! When are you building the offline stuff into your docs and spreadsheets. Are you going to have a presentation software?
Friday, June 22, 2007
Getting f&#ked by OO write
Excuse my french. I am really irritated with Open Office and at the point of bashing my laptop screen in frustration. Here I am working my ass off on a business case at 1.45 AM and Ivor brings a PPT that he just found on the net which had some relevant information. My OpenOffice write crashed along with OO Present. I accidently said 'no' to document recovery (it was 1.45 am) and all my overnight work has gone down the drain. I have just downloaded Abiword. I need to get up early and work on it again.
Do you guys know a PowerPoint equivalent on Linux? I don't want to use stupid flaky open office and nor do I want to run Wine. If you guys have any other suggestions it would be great. BTW, Google! When are you building the offline stuff into your docs and spreadsheets. Are you going to have a presentation software?
Do you guys know a PowerPoint equivalent on Linux? I don't want to use stupid flaky open office and nor do I want to run Wine. If you guys have any other suggestions it would be great. BTW, Google! When are you building the offline stuff into your docs and spreadsheets. Are you going to have a presentation software?
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How about you fuck off and quit posting shit like this on digg. Fucking ass.
I've seen a little bit of OO2.2 instability in Feisty. Not much, but it's clearly there.
I recently tried disabling Java support and there's some indications that it speeds it up AND helps with reliability.
Try it: goto "tools", "options" and under the "openoffice.org" goto "Java" and turn it OFF (checkbox). You can also select different Java runtimes - I'm not sure which is better. I actually don't know what I'm losing without it but so far I can't tell so, hey, why not? If it simplifies the system...?
There's also some memory tuning in this area you might try. Above "Java" under "openoffice.org" you'll see a "memory" flag. In there, dropping the undo steps simplifies things and if you have enough RAM, you can increase the graphics cache.
With 1gig on tap I'm running 128megs total, 20megs per object.
Jim March
Thanks Jim. I have turned off Java now. I hope that helps. I have also downloaded Abiword. All I need is basic formatting and Export and Import from MS Word. I guess this works pretty well for me now.
OpenOffice needs to get far more stable if it has to even think of coming close to Microsoft Office.
Thanks for the suggestions vagmi. i dont plan on keeping this theme anyways.
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