[libreoffice-users] Re: Web layout crashes LO - update

Hi Thomas


Toppa-2 wrote
> When LibreOffice was established after OpenOffice were taken over and 
> now seems to be semi-commercial, I sold my soul willingly to the LO devil.
> I prefer(ed) to stay with the rebels fighting for freedom ("Libre").
> Yet I have run several times into situations where I was/am under the 
> impression the devil is not keeping its part of the deal.

Actually the concept here is that if you use Open Documents you are free to
use whatever software you like the best. Unlike MS documents that lock you
to a single provider (and sometimes even to a single version) with ODT
files, you are free to switch to any editor that you find more
attractive/useful/stable.


Toppa-2 wrote
> For example, in this particular case, why does the "web layout" works 
> just fine with OpenOffice but not with Libreoffice.
> Switching between these two applications does not change any settings in 
> my computer - I think. Or does it?

The two suites are taking different approaches: OpenOffice is more
conservative and probably more stable but has less features; LibreOffice is
moving forward faster at the price of some loss in stability.


Toppa-2 wrote
> I could try upgrade to version 4 something, but after I tried that 
> before, I found that the "improvements" made things a lot worse for me and
> deliberately went back to 3.6.6.

I would recommend trying the portable version of build 4.1.3 from winPenPack
http://sourceforge.net/projects/winpenpack/files/X-LibreOffice/releases/

You just need to download it and extract the contents to any folder or
drive. Then just execute the file X-LibreOffice.exe 
This will NOT affect your installed version in any way.

If it is suits your needs (and fixes some of the problems) you can download
the latest version of the installer from TDF and update your installed
version. If not, just delete the folder containing the portable version.

In any case if OpenOffice works as you expect, why do you avoid using it?

Regards,
Pedro



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