Re: [SLUG] Star Office 6.0 questions

From: Smitty (a.smitty@verizon.net)
Date: Mon Sep 09 2002 - 10:21:35 EDT


On Monday 09 September 2002 09:37, you wrote:
> If any of you are using Star Office 6.0 could you take a look at the
> printer configuration object and see if it includes a driver for the Xerox
> 265 printer?

no drivers listed for it. Only for 220/230.
>
> A couple other questions WRT to 6.0 vs. 5.2:
>
> * Is it your impression that 6.0 does a better job of
> importing/displaying Power Point files than 5.2? I opened a Power Point
> file in 5.2 and while it could be read and photos were fine it wasn't
> something I'd put in front of a client/prospective client. Text spacing was
> off, had some undesired superimposition of logos on one another and slide
> framing wasn't quite right.

Not my experience with 5.2, but haven't used 6.0 long enough to comment.
>
> * Does 6.0 do a better job of displaying forms generated in Excel than
> 5.2? We have some stock forms (Purchase Order, Vacation Request and such)
> that have a moderated amount of formatting, like boxes, lines to fill in,
> boxes to check and so on. I've opened a few in SO 5.2 and they are mostly
> correct but a "yes/no" check box might be absent or shading around a box
> might not be so good.

Same as previous.
>
> I hope to hear that Sun has improved SO's handling of these sorts of items.
>
> Thanks
> John Clay



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