OpenOffice.org 2.4 released [LWN.net]

OpenOffice.org 2.4 released

Posted Mar 27, 2008 19:59 UTC (Thu) by allesfresser (subscriber, #216)
In reply to: OpenOffice.org 2.4 released by beoba
Parent article: OpenOffice.org 2.4 released

Just to provide a balanced perspective, I use NeoOffice 2.2 (and now 2.3) (mostly Writer and
Calc, with some Draw) every day, and have no problems with it, and neither do the users that I
support, beyond normal user-support issues that you'd expect from any application.  This is on
a G4 (PPC) Mac Mini, a G4 iBook, a Core 2 Duo iMac, and a Santa Rosa MacBook, depending on
where I am, and which user I'm supporting, at any given moment.

I also have OOo on a Windows XP machine that I have to use from time to time, so I do have
that for comparison.  And NeoOffice doesn't compare badly IMHO.  In fact it does some things
rather better than OOo, including OpenType support (thanks to the use of ATSUI, Apple's font
libraries).  I use fonts like Warnock Pro all the time with NeoOffice, and it publishes them
to PDF very nicely, subsetting, normal ligatures and all.

So I think perhaps your character assassination of NeoOffice is, perhaps, somewhat premature
and unwarranted.

I've also tried the developer builds of OOo/Aqua, and they were surprisingly usable for a
bleeding-edge alpha.  I wouldn't quite use them for something I really cared about yet, but
they seemed to be coming along nicely.

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OpenOffice.org 2.4 released

Posted Mar 27, 2008 20:29 UTC (Thu) by allesfresser (subscriber, #216) [Link]

Sorry, that was meant to be "2.2.3", not "2.3".

OpenOffice.org 2.4 released

Posted Mar 28, 2008 17:54 UTC (Fri) by beoba (guest, #16942) [Link]

I've used it on a 1.33ghz Powerbook, it freezes for about 5 seconds any time that the file is
saved to disk. This includes the periodic automatic saves.

I get periodic draw artifacts within the window, but this at least hides the godawful font
spacing problems that it has when the window is clear.

5 seconds? You are sooo lucky!

Posted Mar 31, 2008 8:56 UTC (Mon) by khim (subscriber, #9252) [Link]

I have a spreadsheet with 30'000 URL's and some numbers attached to them. When OpenOffice.org decides to autosave this beast it freezes for 30-40 seconds! Not matter what I use: Windows or Linux (I don't have Mac) it's VERY annoying.

You can say it's pretty big file, but still - it's just 500Kb .ods! Autosave is big problem for such files: without autosave you risk losing your work and with autosave you are losing significant productive time (30-40seconds every 15 minutes or so - that's 15min per day).