M$ and Open Office

[Alexander Portnoy]

On 24 Sep 2003 08:33:56 +1000
Andy K <andy at richardflanagan.com.au> wrote:

> Thanks Martin
> 
> Being a newbie, I am not sure what information to provide. Thanks for
> the tip. 
> I am using version 1.0.3, (Thats what the directory in home says) and I
> installed from the ports collection. Installation seemed to go smoothly,
> it took awhile as I am using a P2 with 128MB RAM, but no errors at the
> end, and all aspects of the program open and work fine - except when it
> comes to opening M$ docs. When I try to open a M$ doc, all of the
> information disappears and I get a k# at the top of the page only, or I
> get the error - An unrecoverable error has occurred. All modified files
> have been saved and can probably be recovered at program restart.- I
> have also noticed  that the word docs do not have a word icon, yet the
> excel doc does.(Microsoft office 97 icons) The original docs are in
> office XP format.
> 
> Regards 
> Andrew Kozak
> 
> On Tue, 2003-09-23 at 18:47, Martin Blapp wrote:
> > 
> > Hi,
> > 
> > > I have installed open office and cannot open M$ docs - both word and
> > > excel have failed. Is there something in the  config I should be looking
> > > at. Sorry for my ignorance, it's just that I assumed it would open M$
> > > stuff straight away, I have also installed the program on a windows
> > > machine, and that one opened M$ docs of all kinds right away. I am using
> > > FreeBSD 4.8. If it should be opening them straight away, any suggestions
> > 
> > You forgot to tell us which version of openoffice you use, and if you have
> > installed
> > a port or a package.
> > 
> > Martin
> > 
> 
> 
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Get OpenOffice 1.1rc4 package for FreeBSD 4.8
from http://projects.imp.ch/openoffice and add 128 or 256 MB RAM ;-)
It works fine on FreeBSD-4.8-RELEASE (P-III-866MHz/256MB RAM) and really opens
M$-OfficeXP documents (doc, ppt, ...). It has great support for bidirectional
languages (hebrew works very well) and can export documents to different formats (including PDF).