[inbox] Open Office help

[Joe]

Great!  That worked!  It was getting almost as bad as Barney!  I haven't 
done enough in Ooo to notice the differences other than a huge speed 
increase, but it certainly looks nice at first glance.

Joe

Greg Neumann wrote:

> 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"
> <---paste!--->
> 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
> <---end paste--->
> 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.
>>
>

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