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Posted to users@openoffice.apache.org by William Sullivan <bi...@gmail.com> on 2016/07/13 20:07:11 UTC
Differences Between Using Open Office Writer with OS X instead of Windows
Is anything published about these differences?
Is there a forum for users on OS X?
Is there a forum Moderator who uses OO Writer with OS X?
I have submitted a problem to the forum, but all the response I get is from people using OO Writer on Windows and they cannot understand the problem.
Thank you,
Bill Sullivan
Username: wasullivan
E-mail address: billsull1937@gmail.com
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Re: Differences Between Using Open Office Writer with OS X instead of Windows
Posted by Fernando Cassia <fc...@gmail.com>.
On 7/13/16, William Sullivan <bi...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Is anything published about these differences?
>
> Is there a forum for users on OS X?
>
> Is there a forum Moderator who uses OO Writer with OS X?
>
> I have submitted a problem to the forum, but all the response I get is from
> people using OO Writer on Windows and they cannot understand the problem.
>
> Thank you,
>
> Bill Sullivan
Bill,
When Stardivision Gmbh, a German software firm headed by Marco
Boerries started making its StarOffice suite available across
different PC and Mac platforms, they quickly realized they needed to
support several operating systems at once with little reprogramming
and visual differences (for the user). So they ended up creating a set
of graphical components for "StarOffice" that looked the same and
worked across the several supported operating systems (back then,
Windows, Unix, OS/2, etc). They called that "framework as "StarView"
(1)
Then came Sun Microsystems which bought Stardivision and created Sun
StarOffice and OpenOffice.org opening up the source code. It included
further cross-platform abilities like separation of the different apps
that make the "offic suite" into components (2).
Then Oracle bought Sun and then after a revolt by a group of external
programmers, Oracle decided to hand over OpenOffice.org to the Apache
Software Foundation.
All the above is to say: the cross-platform fundamentals remain the
same on today's AOO. It has and continues to look and behave the same
no matter what OS you use. There is little if any retraining to be
done when moving across AOO running on different operating systems.
The programs should work and behave the same no matter what the
underlying operating system youu are using.
FC
(1)
http://www.drdobbs.com/cpp/examining-the-starview-application-frame/184409128
(2)
http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/library/co-uno.html
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Re: Differences Between Using Open Office Writer with OS X instead
of Windows
Posted by Rory O'Farrell <of...@iol.ie>.
On Wed, 13 Jul 2016 15:07:11 -0500
William Sullivan <bi...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Is anything published about these differences?
>
> Is there a forum for users on OS X?
>
> Is there a forum Moderator who uses OO Writer with OS X?
>
> I have submitted a problem to the forum, but all the response I get is from people using OO Writer on Windows and they cannot understand the problem.
>
> Thank you,
>
> Bill Sullivan
> Username: wasullivan
> E-mail address: billsull1937@gmail.com
There are Volunteers on the Forum who use OS X; they may be online later. Remember that he Forum is manned by volunteers who give of their knowledge in their own time; the demands of Real Life may limit their involvement.
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Rory O'Farrell <of...@iol.ie>
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Re: Differences Between Using Open Office Writer with OS X instead of Windows
Posted by Rochelle <rh...@gmail.com>.
I've used Apache Open Office Writer on Ubuntu and since 2013 on OSX and
have had no problems. I just make sure to save as ms .doc for
compatibility when sharing with others.
Rochelle
On Wed, Jul 13, 2016 at 12:09 PM, Julian THOMAS <Jt...@jt-mj.net> wrote:
> I'm not a moderator but have been using oo longer than OS X and am now
> comfortable with both. Differences are minor - all the functionality is
> there. Resubmit yr question and I will help if I can.
>
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> > On Jul 13, 2016, at 16:07, William Sullivan <bi...@gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >
> > Is anything published about these differences?
> >
> > Is there a forum for users on OS X?
> >
> > Is there a forum Moderator who uses OO Writer with OS X?
> >
> > I have submitted a problem to the forum, but all the response I get is
> from people using OO Writer on Windows and they cannot understand the
> problem.
> >
> > Thank you,
> >
> > Bill Sullivan
> > Username: wasullivan
> > E-mail address: billsull1937@gmail.com
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Re: Differences Between Using Open Office Writer with OS X instead of Windows
Posted by Julian THOMAS <Jt...@jt-mj.net>.
I'm not a moderator but have been using oo longer than OS X and am now comfortable with both. Differences are minor - all the functionality is there. Resubmit yr question and I will help if I can.
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> On Jul 13, 2016, at 16:07, William Sullivan <bi...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Is anything published about these differences?
>
> Is there a forum for users on OS X?
>
> Is there a forum Moderator who uses OO Writer with OS X?
>
> I have submitted a problem to the forum, but all the response I get is from people using OO Writer on Windows and they cannot understand the problem.
>
> Thank you,
>
> Bill Sullivan
> Username: wasullivan
> E-mail address: billsull1937@gmail.com
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Re: Differences Between Using Open Office Writer with OS X instead of
Windows
Posted by Larry Gusaas <la...@gmail.com>.
On 2016-07-13, 2:07 PM William Sullivan wrote concerning "Differences Between Using Open Office
Writer with OS X instead of Windows":
> Is anything published about these differences?
>
> Is there a forum for users on OS X?
https://forum.openoffice.org/en/forum/index.php
There is a Mac specific section under "Install, Setup and Troubleshooting"
https://forum.openoffice.org/en/forum/viewforum.php?f=17
> Is there a forum Moderator who uses OO Writer with OS X?
I, and several other volunteers, use AOO Writer with OS X
> I have submitted a problem to the forum, but all the response I get is from people using OO Writer on Windows and they cannot understand the problem.
You could have stated the problem you were having. I searched the forums and found your posts.
A link to a bug report was given. Also you stated you were using AOO with Windows 10 under
Parallels. There is a Mac OS X native version of AOO. No need to run under Parallels.
I have been using AOO (and its predecessor OOo) on Macs for 10 years and have never had the
problem you described.
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