[inbox] Open Office help

[Greg Neumann]

OpenOffice.org 1.1.1 is a major imporvement over 1.1.0. Anybody who 
doesn't have it, should get it. At least in Windoze, it's much better. 
Here's a response about the splash screen on startup"
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Hi Tim,

 >Please, in a future revision, make it so I can minimize the splash
 >screen.  I have no idea why OpenOffice takes so long to load but having
 >an invincible splash screen in the middle of my desktop for more than a
 >minute is just unacceptable.
 >
 >
You can already disable the splash screen by changing the line "Logo=1"
to "Logo=0" (or putting it there if it doesn't exist yet) in sofficerc
(or soffice.ini).

Cyrille
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Hope this helps.
-Greg

Joe wrote:
> Hi.  I'm running OOo 1.1.0 on Mandrake 9.1 rc2.  When I start OOo 
> writer, it puts up a splash screen that stays on top of everything until 
> it loads which takes about 11 minutes.  Then when I open a file (even 
> less than one page long) it takes another 6 minutes and printing takes 
> at least that long.  That's the old story.  I was resigned to it because 
> I thought my old processor was just too slow to deal with it - PII 266 
> MHz, 128MB ram, 30 GB main HD.
> 
> BUT, I just got a Knoppix 3.3 CD to play with.  Once I got it booted and 
> figured out how to mount my home dir, I was able to load OOo 1.1 writer 
> in about 3 minutes (with no splash screen!), load a 4 page file in less 
> than 1 minute and print in less than one minute - just like downtown!
> 
> So, what the heck is going on in the OOo under Mandrake?
> 
> The only clue I have seen is something about making a font cache read 
> only, but I tried to do that and either I got it wrong or it had no effect.
> I have used fontdrake to get all my windoze fonts and I do use Times New 
> Roman a lot (from Windoze).
> 
> Any ideas about why it's so slow and how to fix it and how to get rid of 
> that maddening splash screen that blots out everything for 11 minutes?
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> Joe.
> 
> P.S.  I just got the OOo 1.1.1 CD but have not installed it yet.  I 
> don't know if that will make any difference, but the knoppix and MDK 
> OOo's both report 1.1, so I think they're at the same version.
>