[SLE] OpenOffice 2 beta woes in 9.3

From: Kornelis Sietsma (korny_at_sietsma.com)
Date: 05/05/05

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    Hi - first in a series of minor complaints about the Suse 9.3 install
    :) I decided to do a clean install instead of upgrading from Suse 9.2
    (which was an upgrade from 9.1, and had various slightly broken configs
    as a result) and now I'm finding several points of pain...

    First, OpenOffice 2.0 beta has a few real headaches:
    - Saving as open office 1 means losing your User Defined fields (The
    ones in the "User Defined" tab of Document Properties). This is not
    just when loading them into OO version 1 - if I edit and save a .sxw
    file I lose the user defined fields. A slight problem when my entire
    office uses these fields for key document info.
    - Saving as version 1 also seems to break some styles when loaded by
    another user using OpenOffice 1. They look ok in OO2, but are changed
    in strange ways in OO1.
    - There is no jpg filter in the default install! If I try to embed a
    jpg file into a document I get a warning: "Graphics filter not found".
      (Update - on checking further, this only seems to work for some images
    - specifically, our company logo! Some jpgs are fine. bizarre.)
    This also means previously embedded jpeg files in existing sxw documents
    show up as errors, it took considerable effort to find the problem was
    with filters. (If it is)
    - Numerous regular crashes, especially when editing drawing elements
    embedded into a Writer document.

    Sadly, I might have to revert to version 1 in order to actually get my
    work done. I know that this is a beta, but I had hoped that if
    Novell/Suse thought that 2.0 was worth installing as the default, it
    meant that the product was stable enough to use. I'm especially worried
    by the problems dealing with version 1.0 document formats - if I'm going
    to use this, I have to be able to keep using the old document format
    until my whole workplace has migrated, I'd hoped that file system
    backward compatibility was a primary goal of the new version...

    Can you run both versions at once? I haven't tried this, but if it
    works relatively smoothly, I might give it a go - I'd hate to have to
    completely revert, and lose all the nice new features of the Draw program.

    - Korny 

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