Re: [libreoffice-users] Displaying behaviour from old OpenOffice installation?

Hi :)
It is sometimes difficult to remove all traces of OOo.  It might be better to 
use this guide to reinstate OOo 

http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Installing_in_parallel

and then check which dependencies are missing for LibreOffice or just reinstall 
it?  


It might be worth installing the LibreOffice 3.3.3 alongside the 3.4.2 because 
it's a more stable version.  The 3.4.2 is "for early adopters" (equiv of 
development branch) but i thought the 3.4.x were slightly better at MS Office 
conversions.  


In the virtualised Fedora did you install LibreOffice from the Fedora repos?  
There might be some slight tweaks in versions in repos and it might be good for 
LO devs to know if there was an improvement! 


Note that some files convert more easily than others.  Files made with MS Office 
2007 sometimes look wrong in MS Office 2010 and vice-versa but i don't think 
that's the issue here.  


Developments happen fairly fast in LibreOffice but MS have a strong motive for 
making sure that everyone has to upgrade to their latest versions so it is 
always going to be catch-up work until Open Document Formats become more 
common-place.  


So, it might be good to give people links to LibreOffice or almost any other 
Office Suite so that you can use native ODF formats with them.  It might save 
them the cost of buying a newer version of MS Office just to keep up!
Regards from
Tom :)




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From: brad <brad46526@gmail.com>
To: users@global.libreoffice.org
Sent: Tue, 9 August, 2011 7:41:11
Subject: [libreoffice-users] Displaying behaviour from old OpenOffice 
installation?

Hi.  I've been running OpenOffice 3.3.0 on my Slackware 12.0 Linux
distribution (2.6.28.6 kernel).  It's been running fine, except its
formatting of Microsoft Word documents doesn't marry with Word itself.  I
have to run up Word if I want to make totally sure that indented columns
line up, lines don't overflow the right margin, etc.  And when I open a Word
document that I've 'fixed' to look right in Word back in OpenOffice it'll
look unaligned, even though in Word itself it isn't.

Then, today, I installed LibreOffice 3.4.2 on a Fedora 14 virtual machine,
having read a comment that LibreOffice does a much better job of emulating
Word.  Sure enough, LibreOffice worked perfectly in that virtual machine -
rendering documents just like Word.

So I promptly went back to my 'real' machine and installed LibreOffice.

However LibreOffice is no different!  When I open up a document it looks
exactly as it used to in OpenOffice (i.e. the text is unaligned, unfaithful
to how Word would render it).  Also the icons in the various menu bars don't
look at all the same between LibreOffice running on my host machine versus
how it looks on the Fedora 14 VM.

I move the existing OpenOffice installation out of the way (by renaming the
/opt/openoffice.org* directories) and did a 'ps' listing to make sure that
the executables that I was running were all coming out of
/opt/libreoffice3.4.  Clicking on the Help/About menu tells me that I'm
running LibreOffice 3.4.2.

Right now I have no idea what to look at next.  I guess something is hanging
around in my Slackware host machine that's telling LibreOffice to do the
wrong formatting?  Is it possible that different versions of shared
libraries could cause LibreOffice to look and render quite differently?

Many thanks for any tips!

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