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Office 2008 12.1.1 Update Published

6/25/08 5:57:39 PM Microsoft Word[833] CGBitmapContextGetData: invalid context

6/25/08 5:57:39 PM Microsoft Word[833] CGBitmapContextGetData: invalid context
6/25/08 5:57:39 PM Microsoft Word[833] CGBitmapContextGetData: invalid context
6/25/08 5:57:39 PM Microsoft Word[833] CGBitmapContextGetData: invalid context
6/25/08 5:57:39 PM Microsoft Word[833] CGBitmapContextGetData: invalid context
6/25/08 5:57:39 PM Microsoft Word[833] CGBitmapContextGetData: invalid context
6/25/08 5:57:39 PM Microsoft Word[833] CGBitmapContextGetData: invalid context
6/25/08 5:57:39 PM Microsoft Word[833] CGBitmapContextGetData: invalid context
6/25/08 5:57:39 PM Microsoft Word[833] CGBitmapContextGetData: invalid context
6/25/08 5:57:39 PM Microsoft Word[833] CGBitmapContextGetData: invalid context
6/25/08 5:57:39 PM Microsoft Word[833] CGBitmapContextGetData: invalid context
6/25/08 5:57:39 PM Microsoft Word[833] CGBitmapContextGetData: invalid context
6/25/08 5:57:39 PM Microsoft Word[833] CGBitmapContextGetData: invalid context
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6/25/08 5:57:39 PM Microsoft Word[833] CGBitmapContextGetData: invalid context
6/25/08 5:57:39 PM Microsoft Word[833] CGBitmapContextGetData: invalid context
6/25/08 5:57:39 PM Microsoft Word[833] CGBitmapContextGetData: invalid context
6/25/08 5:57:39 PM Microsoft Word[833] CGBitmapContextGetData: invalid context
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nsbio said:
MS has probably broken the world record for loading time of ANY word processor on a hard drive-containing machine, EVER.
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One thing that depresses me in general about the business world is the brazen-faced lies that come universally from firms that won't admit, "Well, it was policy to help increase our revenue, and yes, we know it just makes life more difficult for you."

12 minutes of research would reveal that Excel users want VBScript support, and writing a VBscript interpreter - especially if you have the source for the Windows version across the hall - is not that difficult. 1 startup of Office would reveal that launch time is unacceptable and a simple tweak of defaults would make it more appealing. But why make 2008 appealing, when 2007 is so much smoother under Windows, possibly under a virtualisation solution? Say it, Microsoft.

No-one is forcing iPhone owners to download software from other than the iTunes store, so there is no need to demand developers click-through a restrictive agreement and pay $99/year for the privilege of distributing free apps. But why give freedom that might encourage developers to produce software that cuts into network/Apple's revenue model? Say it, Apple.

What I want to hear is: "I'm doing it because it makes me more money - now you provide an alternative that might make me even richer and I'll consider it". The problem isn't anywhere near isolated to these examples, of course.
 
I would upgrade from 2004 if they Microsoft came out with Snow Office 2012 with no new features except for the ability to use all your cores if it needed it.
 
Significant improvement here. Seems to bring Office 2008 to the state it should have been in when it was released 5 months ago.

- Launch times signicantly improved
- Expose finally works well. Spaces still flaky but improved nonetheless
- Sorts the terribly annoying bug where spaces were lost when opening a Word 2008 docx in Word 2007 (this one has given me quite some headaches).

I love iWork and have used it quite a bit, but unfortunately for my work it's not an acceptable alternative to MS Office at the moment. I feel this update finally makes Office 08 better than 2004 (with the exception of macro support, which isn't a big deal to me).

(This on a MBP SR 2.2GHz/2GB/250GB)
 
Chundles said:
It won't. It's still a bloated fat mammal of an office suite.

To iWork everyone! Before the riff raff get in!
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I never thought I'd do it, but I did. I bought iWork just last month after having used Microsoft Word for all my WP needs since about 1996 (version 6.0!). Before that I used ClarisWorks, and was happy as can be. Word was improved upon with every release until 2008. Word 98 was, in my opinion, the pinnacle of the Microsoft Mac BU work. Word v.X was okay, but more of a stopgap between 98 and 2004. 2004 was as good as 98, but a little slower on all but the fastest machines. I had such high hopes for 2008, especially since it's a Universal Binary.

Well, on my MacBook Pro, 2008 has been much slower and more buggy than 2004. And a few of my friends (who have Intel Macs) have experienced the exact same thing. Some of them downgraded back to 2004, while myself and others have upgraded to iWork. Pages can't do everything Word could (of just not as easily, imo), but it's a ton faster, and it works with OSX the way Word should.
 
nsbio said:
understand that my computer is no longer the newest there is, but this time MS has probably broken the world record for loading time of ANY word processor on a hard drive-containing machine, EVER.
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The update took about 2 minutes to load onto my computer. Word took about 30 seconds to load before, not it takes about 12. Still perfectly ludicrous on a 2.4 GHz Core 2 Duo with 4 GB of RAM!

Pages takes between 4-6 seconds. (Still not as fast as I'd like).

Whatever happened to the days of developers getting programs to launch quickly? Remember back when Microsoft introduced IE 4.5 for the Mac? They had load time comparisons with other apps, and IE 4.5 usually opened within a couple seconds. I've only experienced a couple apps that open that quickly. Even most Apple apps take much longer (especially iTunes, iCal, Mail...).
 
iWork and Circus Ponies still better

Chundles said:
It won't. It's still a bloated fat mammal of an office suite.

To iWork everyone! Before the riff raff get in!
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Agreed. I was trying to do something in Office 2007 for Windows, I had to bring it into iWork's Pages in order to format it correctly. Man these new versions suck. I did not go with Office 2008 for the mac as I crashed it twice with "minimal normal work" (like inserting a table into a word doc and a simple @sum(A3:B4) in Excel.

Plus office 2007 removed some of my features I need. So it is iwork for my Mac, and Office 2003 for my Windows machines. Unfortunately I am stuck with 2007 on my work Windows machine. In word documents I can no longer copy and past a section to an email in Outlook. Tables to not justify properly so that I can fit more on a page. I cannot control my own margins as easily. I cannot scan a document directly into word (now I must take the extra time to scan a document or picture to a tif/jpg and then insert the image into word. And what is up with that ribbon. Most of what I use is gone or hard to find.

beh - Office products have really gone down hill with these releases (both windows and Mac). Lets hope the hiring at Microsoft Mac BU puts them back on track.

Also for those bringing onenote to the mac.... Well, I used to use one note heavily and was a power user. One thing I could not stand was the cache file and automatic backups to the same harddrive (and they were buried so unless you know your windows OS, good luck finding them - they are in a hidden folder) between the cache and the backups, my hard drive space was eaten up quickly. I am loving the features more in Circus Ponies Notebook - especially the indexing and table of contents. there are some features I would like to be in CP notebook that One Note has....

1. type anywhere on the page

2. Being able to tab every page within a section without it looking cluttered.

3. When inserting a PDF - don't copy the file into the notebook which makes the file size bloated (of course if they do that I am not sure how they would still have the feature of viewing the document inside of notebook itself). I am sure there is a way to just have a link to the external file and still let it open in its native app. Unless you resize the preview to take up the entire page, having it in the notebook itself is useless as it is hard to read.

Other than that - everything else seems to be there.

What can MACBU bring to MAC that would satisfy the business / enterprise world.

1. MS SQL Server - a nice gui version like the Windows version.
2. .NET (ok java fans, I know I am going to get flambasted for that; but I work in a MS shop that has not embraced apple yet, and I hate having to have a personal laptop that is not apple as my work backup).

Also please give us a way (improve crossover and wine) to run the latest MS Windows Apps natively on our macs. I know there is not much outthere where you still need the windows versions, but until those minor / last few apps are available on a MAC or there is a decent alternative we are still forced to use MS products (ie you excel users who are scientists who require error bars that are not in iWork numbers; and a few other apps I can only find Windows versions for).
 
yudilks said:
6/25/08 5:57:39 PM Microsoft Word[833] CGBitmapContextGetData: invalid context
6/25/08 5:57:39 PM Microsoft Word[833] CGBitmapContextGetData: invalid context
6/25/08 5:57:39 PM Microsoft Word[833] CGBitmapContextGetData: invalid context
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:D:D:D

Yeah, still broken here as well. Makes looking at the logs for *real* data, difficult while I have any Office app (other than Entourage) running.

-Kevin
 
OOXML is already obsolete

The lame thing about the OOXML update for Office 2004 is that Microsoft has agreed (with the ISO) to abandon OOXML and participate in OpenDocument Format (ODF), the format used in OpenOffice. Thus, OOXML is a lame duck format.
 
Faster, yes. But it still didn't fix the Spaces/Expose issues!

Especially if you dare to have the formatting palette open :eek:
 
Getting update to work

My update would not work until I replaced the package "Office/Microsoft Office Setup Assistant" in "Applications/Microsoft Office 2008" using Time Machine. I have been using Macaroni to remove localized files (languages) and that was the file that had been modified.
 
Ed State said:
Faster, yes. But it still didn't fix the Spaces/Expose issues!

Especially if you dare to have the formatting palette open :eek:
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dang it, I was hoping that this would be fixed. Its like they didn't even write the code on a mac. Microsoft didn't have the sense to press the Expose key to see if it worked? Because it doesn't. Noobs
 
Xavier said:
dang it, I was hoping that this would be fixed. Its like they didn't even write the code on a mac. Microsoft didn't have the sense to press the Expose key to see if it worked? Because it doesn't. Noobs
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What Expose issue are you talking about? I have 08, and have Entourage, Word [with formatting palette open], Safari, and a document open. I press Expose, and it works fine. All the items are shown, and a can even see the palette floating. Am I missing something?
 
Odd. When I press Expose with a Office 08 Window open, the windows will be separated like normal, but when I move the mouse over the Office document, the selection will be my entire screen instead of just the Office Doc. Very annoying.

Maybe the update did fix it :confused: I will see when I get home and off of this P(OS)C.
 
mitatoc said:
My update would not work until I replaced the package "Office/Microsoft Office Setup Assistant" in "Applications/Microsoft Office 2008" using Time Machine. I have been using Macaroni to remove localized files (languages) and that was the file that had been modified.
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Do you know if you could compress the file, and send it to me? I removed the languages from office, so the update doesn't work and i lost my cd:(

Thanks a lot.
 
Ed State said:
Faster, yes. But it still didn't fix the Spaces/Expose issues!

Especially if you dare to have the formatting palette open :eek:
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no idea why it didn't fix it for you but the new update fixed whatever spaces/expose problems that i used to have on previous updates. at least as far as i can tell.
 
Download & Installed with no problems.

All the applications now boot much faster. I'd even go as far to say they boot at an acceptable speed.

My biggest annoyance since the SP1 was the *issue that prevents Microsoft Word 2008 for Mac Service Pack 1 (SP1) from opening Word documents when you double-click the document or when you download the document from a Web site*.

That has now been fixed.

I bought Office 2008 as soon as it came out & yes it was buggy as hell. But patience is a virtue & I am sticking with it.

If your still have problems with yours I hope you soon get them sorted.

Cheers
 
DOUGHNUT said:
no idea why it didn't fix it for you but the new update fixed whatever spaces/expose problems that i used to have on previous updates. at least as far as i can tell.
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It is buggy if you have more than one word window opened. Expose not allways selects the correct window. If you place those windows in different spaces some times the windows get moved one of the spaces.
If you just open one word window, you will no see the problem.

I have no hope about them fixing this bugs, it took them a lot of time to fix the real nasty "open over the net bug". This small issues will be there forever.
 
Watabou said:
Installing now. 153 MB I see. Pretty big. Hopefully this will make Word start up faster.

EDIT: It's actually 476MB now that installer started up. It took about 5 minutes just to check "additional volumes".

Another EDIT: Finished installing. Even when Word was opened once, it started up in 4 seconds. That is an improvement by a bit.
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you can try this :

Slow Word 2008 Launching

Does Word 2008 take an unusually long time to launch ? If so, this trick might speed things up.
Select Word: Preferences and click on the General pane. Deselect the WYSIWYG Font and Style Menus
and Show Project Gallery At Startup options .
Quit the program. It Should launch faster next time.

Apparently , a font-preview problem is to blame , and Microsoft is expected to fix it in an Office Update
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- I haven't installed the patch but this helped me to speed the startup of Word
 
CobaltJacket said:
The lame thing about the OOXML update for Office 2004 is that Microsoft has agreed (with the ISO) to abandon OOXML and participate in OpenDocument Format (ODF), the format used in OpenOffice. Thus, OOXML is a lame duck format.
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Microsoft agreeing to participate in a format used by a free opensource competitor? :eek: Rather than trying to make everyone else conform to them. :eek:

Wow, now that is a turn in events.....

well, in an article that came out a few years back it said where MS supports Novell Linux - so I have a feeling we will be seeing the end of MS as we know it in a few years. After all Bill Gates last day at the helm is Friday. it took 3 people to replace him, and he will only have a 1 day a week peripheral involvement. In an article posted on a news site earlier this week, it even said Gates had to give up his office and move into a smaller one out of the way and down the hall.

In the article it also said there is a sense of uneasiness as people try to figure out, what next. Bill has not been involved much in the past few years, but the point of him not being in the office and the stir of him exiting on Friday has the place feeling awkward.

Microsoft - changed the world for better, then changed it for worse, now trying to find where it fits in. :eek:

The sad part being all these enterprises that have so much invested in MS and swear by them. They may be in for a big problem should MS really start to flounder. Converting huge amounts of data from one platform to another is not an easy task. Time consuming to also write conversion software to export the date and conversion software to import it. and we all know not every field will import correctly so there is data loss.

Interesting times ahead.......
 
mwp98223 said:
I found this link. Haven't tried it yet, but it could well work. I know it probably applies to my systems.


http://blog.entourage.mvps.org/2008/06/1211_updater_woes.html#more

EDIT: I can confirm that this worked and Offic 12.1.1 is installed on my iMac. It still took forever to launch.
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That is not really a fix, basically you need to reinstall.

I had the same error probably because it was stripped from PPC code, therefore returning the wrong checksum.
Installer has a script that performs checksum in the mpkg, all you need to do is to comment out those lines, easy fix.
 
Chrysaor said:
That is not really a fix, basically you need to reinstall.

I had the same error probably because it was stripped from PPC code, therefore returning the wrong checksum.
Installer has a script that performs checksum in the mpkg, all you need to do is to comment out those lines, easy fix.
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I agree it isn't really a "fix" but it is a method to get everything installed.
 
Tried to install but got this: "You cannot install Office 2008 12.1.1 Update on this volume. A version of the software required to install this update was not found on this volume." I had trouble with the 12.1.0 update so i reverted back to the original disc and didn't update because none of the apps would work after install. Surely I don't have to install the 1.0 update first do I??
 
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