Re: [libreoffice-users] Problem with LibreOffice 5

Hi,

this list is about helping LO users with problems and you seem to have a 
few. Would you care to share any more detail? Have you logged these to 
the bugzilla?

Cheers


On 16/07/17 03:36, Concerned Citizen wrote:
> I find it quite disturbing that someone stating an issue and, perhaps,
> asking for help leads to a thread of Windows-bashing...  This is
> particularly interesting, since I don't remember LibreOffice being a
> competitor to Windows - although it seems to have about as many scripting
> languages as Windows has [Microsoft] development languages...
>
> In any case, I have run into several issues with the suite on both Windows
> (macOS, but let's focus on the former), from Hardware Acceleration and
> OpenCL simply not functioning (at all - which is awful on a Notebook on
> Battery).  To tons of issues with Styles.  To epic performance issues on my
> Notebook stemming from those awful Liberation Fonts (disappears when I
> change font to Times or Arial, etc.).  Bad font rendering in the
> applications (thin, patchy looking fonts... like something on a low res
> PenTile display).  And the fact that the apps perform worse than both
> Microsoft and Corel WordPerfect Office (both of which I own, so I can do
> 1:1 comparison on Windows).
>
> I won't even talk about Linux, because that is clearly off-topic, and I'm
> not sure how you people have extended this to Microsoft and Microsoft
> Windows.  Is there nothing better to do with your time, and do you actually
> wish this to be a place where people can have civil discussion and give
> feedback without fear of the "Tear Down the Competition" reflex you're
> exhibiting, here?
>
> For fixing Permissions in Windows, you can go to the top level and simply
> propagate the permission changes down.  It's not difficult.  It's worked
> that way for about 2 decades (since at least NT4).
>
> On Sat, Jul 15, 2017 at 11:22 AM, Tom Davies <tomcecf@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Hi :)
> > One problem, once and experienced by just one person rarely compares with
> > the problems that abound on Windows.
> > Regards from
> > Tom :)
> >
> > On 10 Jul 2017 15:29, "Tom Williams" <tomdkat@comcast.net> wrote:
> >
> > On 07/09/2017 02:33 PM, Tom Davies wrote:
> > > Hi :)
> > > There was a Win 10 update that messed up the permissions in one of the
> > > places i volunteer at.
> > >
> > > I have no idea how to fix it.  I think we went through each individual
> > > folder to reset the permissions but that sounds like a very
> > > inefficient and highly error-prone way of trying to fix it generally.
> > > Still, 'everyone' loves Windows.
> > >
> > > Regards from
> > > Tom :)
> > Wow. Craziness.   :)
> >
> > Peace...
> >
> > "The Other" Tom
> > > On 9 July 2017 at 17:46, Tom Williams <tomdkat@comcast.net
> > > <mailto:tomdkat@comcast.net>> wrote:
> > >
> > >      On 07/08/2017 02:56 AM, MICHAEL HELY wrote:
> > >      > I am having trouble with this suite.   Normally I have been able
> > >      to open, amend, and save a document without any problem.
> > >      However, in the last week or so I can only open a document in
> > >      read-only form.   To change the contents I have to open a copy for
> > >      editing, save that under a different name, delete the original,
> > >      and then rename the new document to fit in with my filing system.
> > >         This is time consuming, and very inconvenient.
> > >      > The only event that I can identify as a possible cause is that
> > >      about the same time there was an automatic update to Windows 10,
> > >      and there might be some incompatablity between the updated Windows
> > >      and LibreOffice.    (I have since installed the latest update to
> > >      LibreOffice5, but to no avail;  the problem is still there).
> > >      However that is only a wild guess!     I would be grateful for
> > >      your advice and a remedy
> > >      > regards
> > >      > M. Hely
> > >      >
> > >      I have two basic questions:
> > >
> > >       1. Have you confirmed the original file wasn't already "read-only"
> > >          before attempting to open it?
> > >       2. Are you opening files from the file system or directly from an
> > >      email
> > >          attachment?
> > >
> > >
> > >      These are things you have probably already thought of but I want
> > >      to ask
> > >      anyway.  :)   I've run LibreOffice 5 on a couple of Windows 10
> > systems
> > >      and have been able to open, edit, and save documents without issue.
> > >
> > >      Peace...
> > >
> > >      "The Other" Tom
> > >
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