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Mac Forum / Applications / Mac Applications / May 2005NeoOffice/J 1.1 RC
Dear All, Has anyone else tried NeoOffice? Having used OpenOfice on mac (very clunky, using X11 etc), Linux and Windoze, and rather liked it, thought I'd try NeoOffice. The Beta seemed to have the odd bug, but so far, I've written text, spreadsheet (only problem being incompatibility with Excel macros, but that's an OpenOffice issue), presentation and web page on it, and very impressed so far. It's a bit slower than OpenOffice on Linux, but other than that, I think it's great. Views? Ian bowns. * Ian Bowns <irb@wellcool.demon.co.uk>, 2005-04-16 18:34 +0200: > Dear All, > [quoted text clipped - 11 lines] > > Views? I've been using it for quite a while now, and I like it a lot. You have to keep up with their patches, however, it's under active development. A fast internet connection is almost a must. -Andre > * Ian Bowns <irb@wellcool.demon.co.uk>, 2005-04-16 18:34 +0200: > > Dear All, [quoted text clipped - 18 lines] > > -Andre Dear Andre, I agree. My wife actually spotted a bug (I think), but the second patch for 1.1 RC solved is intended to solve it (within five days of me raising it as an issue!). Ian. > Dear All, > [quoted text clipped - 13 lines] > > Ian bowns. NeoOffice/J seems OK to me. Some MS Word documents have erroneous display of mathematical formulas. That's the only problem noticed so far. > > Dear All, > > [quoted text clipped - 17 lines] > display of mathematical formulas. That's the only problem noticed so > far. As I don't use formulae in documents (or recieve many), it hasn't affected me. It's the spreadsheet macros that I have problems with, as I get quite a few of those from Excel users. Thanks, Ian. >>>Dear All, >>> [quoted text clipped - 25 lines] > > Ian. I've used it some -- both wore processing and spreadsheet. My only complaints is that I've had it crash a few times when I hit a bad keystroke. Haven't had that heppen since getting the new release, but I haven't used it much since then either. Basically I think it's a good deal at least for occasional Office compatibility. > Dear All, > [quoted text clipped - 11 lines] > > Views? I've been using it for a while and have been quite happy with it. I'm looking forward to when it's finally fully aquafied.  Signature-------------------- http://www.techhouse.org/lou ---------------------- "Dragonmaster Lou" | "Searching for a distant star, heading off to lou at tealstudios com| Iscandar, leaving all we love behind, who knows Tech House Alum | what dangers we'll find..." ----------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Dear All, > > [quoted text clipped - 14 lines] > I've been using it for a while and have been quite happy with it. I'm > looking forward to when it's finally fully aquafied. Agreed. There are also a few minor issues, but I think they'll get sorted. Ian. Hi, New user here. Bought an iBook a couple of weeks ago and loade NeoOffice for word processing and spreadsheet work. I'm finding it run incredibly slowly and brings many other applications to a craw (Firefox, for example). I see most people who replied to the original thread have been prett happy with NeoOffice, so I'm wondering if anyone could suggest a remed to this problem. I'm a freelance editor, dealing with large documents and I need to b able to track revisions, etc.. I like to work as qucikly as possibl and having to wait a full minute or more for a file to open or save, o for hange to take effect has me pulling my hair out! I was pretty happy with how OpenOffice performed on my Linux machin but I'm wondering if I should break down and buy WordPerfect for th Mac. (Prefer to stay MS-free.) Thanks for any advice offered. -- N -- niban macosx.com - The Answer to Mac Support - http://www.macosx.co : New user here. Bought an iBook a couple of weeks ago and loaded : NeoOffice for word processing and spreadsheet work. I'm finding it runs : incredibly slowly and brings many other applications to a crawl : (Firefox, for example). : I see most people who replied to the original thread have been pretty : happy with NeoOffice, so I'm wondering if anyone could suggest a remedy : to this problem. You didn't say how much RAM you have in your iBook. 768MB is a _minimum_ for good operation. Not that you can't do it with less, but it sounds like perhaps your iBook is paging out to memory a lot. Neo/J takes a lot of memory. If you haven't added to the base 256MB configuration, you really should add at least 512MB. It'll help with overall performance and allow to to keep more apps open w/o losing performance. --Fred > : New user here. Bought an iBook a couple of weeks ago and loaded > : NeoOffice for word processing and spreadsheet work. I'm finding it runs [quoted text clipped - 11 lines] > should add at least 512MB. It'll help with overall performance and allow > to to keep more apps open w/o losing performance. Someone recently suggested trying OpenOffice as a faster alternative. Hi, New user here. Bought an iBook a couple of weeks ago and loade NeoOffice for word processing and spreadsheet work. I'm finding it run incredibly slowly and brings many other applications to a craw (Firefox, for example). I see most people who replied to the original thread have been prett happy with NeoOffice, so I'm wondering if anyone could suggest a remed to this problem. I'm a freelance editor, dealing with large documents and I need to b able to track revisions, etc.. I like to work as qucikly as possibl and having to wait a full minute or more for a file to open or save, o for hange to take effect has me pulling my hair out! I was pretty happy with how OpenOffice performed on my Linux machin but I'm wondering if I should break down and buy WordPerfect for th Mac. (Prefer to stay MS-free.) Thanks for any advice offered. -- N -- niban macosx.com - The Answer to Mac Support - http://www.macosx.co > I was pretty happy with how OpenOffice performed on my Linux machine > but I'm wondering if I should break down and buy WordPerfect for the > Mac. ROFL! Pull the other one, it plays Jingle Bells! Wordperfect for OS X? LOL! Signature~ Stay Calm... Be Brave... Wait for the Signs ~ ------------------------------------------------------ One site: <http://www.balderstone.ca> The other site, with ww links<http://www.woodenwabbits.com> > I was pretty happy with how OpenOffice performed on my Linux machine > but I'm wondering if I should break down and buy WordPerfect for the > Mac. (Prefer to stay MS-free.) You could try the OSX version of OpenOffice itself... it's not quite as nicely integrated as NeoOffice (it retains more of the Linux look and feel), but it does run quicker because it doesn't use so much Java. http://porting.openoffice.org/mac/ooo-osx_downloads.html Cheeri, Calum. > I was pretty happy with how OpenOffice performed on my Linux machine > but I'm wondering if I should break down and buy WordPerfect for the > Mac. (Prefer to stay MS-free.) Can't answer the NeoOffice question. I consult in an environment where Office is the standard, so I use that on both PCs and Macs. Unless you love Wordperfect (I have a friend who has for many years, and still uses 5.1), buying WP just to stay MS-free is like cutting off your nose to spite your face. Personally, I've always found WP to be tedious to use. |
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