List of OpenOffice.org Mac OS X issues and problems

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You will probably be better looking at Mac_OS_X_Porting_-_Roadmap as the content below is more of a history than a todo list.

We maintain this list of OpenOffice.org (OOo) Mac OS X issues and problems, to inform about the important fixes needed for current stable and developer builds, that we have not been able to fix yet.

Other Mac OS X related Wiki pages.


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Fixes needed for OpenOffice.org 2.0 (using X11) for Mac OS X

- Printing

Since OpenOffice.org 2.0.4, Cups is used and all printers seen by any Mac OS X application are seen and available. If something is still wrong, please report any problems to Printing problems with OpenOffice.org 2.0 for Mac OS X

- Fonts

The OpenOffice.org X11 uses now fondu to convert the truetype part of Mac OS X fonts ( not all fonts can be used), so that OpenOffice.org can use all truetype fonts.

I have installed a font called Park Avenue on my Mac OS X (Leopard). The Mac textedit shows it and will print it, but OpenOffice Writer does not pick it up, even on a re-install.

Note: if you can't access dead-keys, or other keys on your keyboard layout, this is an X11 problem: please see X11Keymaps.

Work in progress (Aqua version): implement OpenType font use.

- File access and networks

  • Problems in accessing networked storage (e.g. user accounts in server) -- fixes in progress

- Using X11

[UPDATE] : now, a message does appear at first launch when X11 is not installed. Ready for 2.0.3

Other relevant link : Apple Support Article for Tiger

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    • "Clicking on icon does nothing"

This may be interesting for those trying to run wrong build architechture http://feeds.macosxhints.com/macosxhints/recent?m=312

    • Since 2.0.3, there is a user friendly dialog telling them of the X11, if X11 is not installed/working properly. A proposal for an additional text file in issue 61056 .

General issue list for OpenOffice.org for Mac OS X

The issue 61866 collects the issues that may or may not be relevant for OpenOffice.org Mac porting. Feel free to mark Mac specific issues in OOo issuezilla as blocking the issue 61866.


Issues / Bugs already fixed in OpenOffice.org 2.0 (using X11) for Mac OS X

There is a tracker issue, issue 67331 that maintains a list of issues/bugs fixed in OpenOffice.

Additionally, here is a more detailed description of some of the fixed issues

- Fixed in OOo 2.3 (in development)

- Fixed in OOo 2.2

  • [FIXED]: X11 fonts disabled by default issue 62521 . Only Truetype (.ttf) and Mac fonts (.dfont) are used, because they are high quality.

- Fixed in OOo 2.1

  • [FIXED] issue 69143 Can't Double-Click to Open Special Character Pathnames

- Fixed in OOo 2.0.4

- Fixed in OOo 2.0.3

  • [FIXED] Font issues: not all Mac OS X fonts directly usable in OO.o, and some must be extracted from different Apple archives. A solution using Fondu ([1]) has been integrated to OpenOffice CWS macosxfondu2  . (See issue 57252 )
  • partial fix for X11 error dialogs (part of macosxfondu2 cws)

Release notes: OOo 2.0.3

- Fixed in OOo 2.0.2 or before

See OpenOffice release notes: OpenOffice 2.x release notes list

Crash on startup after X11 Update

  • [FIXED] Just update X11 with X11 1.1.3 from Apple (using System Update )

The 1st November 06 X11 update from Apple has introduced a problem with fonts which causes Open Office to crash on startup.

The latest unstable release m188  , OOo_SRC680_m188_MacOSXIntel_en-GB.dmg, seems to work.

The news section of the OOo Mac porting page has posted a fix. Here's a link to the article. http://porting.openoffice.org/mac/news/news2006.html#20061105

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