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Tips on speeding up NeoOffice?

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TheLordsServant

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Jun 14, 2008
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I took everyone's suggestions and downloaded NeoOffice instead of using TextEdit. Since my entire document was in TextEdit, I just decided to copy and paste all the text into NeoOffice. Little did I realize that my book I'm writing has grown to 98 PAGES! Obviously, as soon as it got the document imported, the entire thing froze up. I haven't been able to get it to work well at all. I'm using a Powerbook G4 1.67ghz 1GB RAM, Radeon 9700. I can't believe that such a computer can't handle simple word processing tasks, and I'm convinced that it's a software issue.


I'm running Mac OSX Leopard 10.5.6 with all latest updates.
 
I tried opening it in NeoOffice. Still no change. When I type, it takes about ten seconds for the characters to appear on screen. I'll try Aqua, I've never heard of it.
 
TheLordsServant said:
I took everyone's suggestions and downloaded NeoOffice instead of using TextEdit. Since my entire document was in TextEdit, I just decided to copy and paste all the text into NeoOffice. Little did I realize that my book I'm writing has grown to 98 PAGES! Obviously, as soon as it got the document imported, the entire thing froze up. I haven't been able to get it to work well at all. I'm using a Powerbook G4 1.67ghz 1GB RAM, Radeon 9700. I can't believe that such a computer can't handle simple word processing tasks, and I'm convinced that it's a software issue.


I'm running Mac OSX Leopard 10.5.6 with all latest updates.
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EDIT: too slow
 
I downloaded OpenOffice Aqua. It doesn't appear to be any better, in fact, it's worse. Even with a brand new document, it can't keep up with typing, and scrolling takes around 10 seconds or more. Is my Powerbook really this slow?
 
TheLordsServant said:
I downloaded OpenOffice Aqua. It doesn't appear to be any better, in fact, it's worse. Even with a brand new document, it can't keep up with typing, and scrolling takes around 10 seconds or more. Is my Powerbook really this slow?
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Have you tried iWork (even the 30 day trial)?
 
I tried the iWork '05 30 day trial that came with my Powerbook. Works smoothly and quickly, no trouble at all. I opened up Activity Monitor to see what my RAM looked like, and though the RAM was fine, as soon as I open OpenOffice OR NeoOffice, my CPU usage pegs out at 100% until I close that program, then it drops down to 7-8% as normal. Does this mean I need to shell out for iWork?
 
TheLordsServant said:
I tried the iWork '05 30 day trial that came with my Powerbook. Works smoothly and quickly, no trouble at all. I opened up Activity Monitor to see what my RAM looked like, and though the RAM was fine, as soon as I open OpenOffice OR NeoOffice, my CPU usage pegs out at 100% until I close that program, then it drops down to 7-8% as normal. Does this mean I need to shell out for iWork?
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Sadly, that sounds like the best bet. Unless someone else has any ideas.
 
Doesn't sound right . . .

TheLordsServant said:
I took everyone's suggestions and downloaded NeoOffice instead of using TextEdit. Since my entire document was in TextEdit, I just decided to copy and paste all the text into NeoOffice. Little did I realize that my book I'm writing has grown to 98 PAGES! Obviously, as soon as it got the document imported, the entire thing froze up. I haven't been able to get it to work well at all. I'm using a Powerbook G4 1.67ghz 1GB RAM, Radeon 9700. I can't believe that such a computer can't handle simple word processing tasks, and I'm convinced that it's a software issue.


I'm running Mac OSX Leopard 10.5.6 with all latest updates.
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What was in your original TextEdit file - how many pages? I have used
NeoOffice for years (moving files back and forth between home and office)
without any difficulty - and some files were in the 50-page range. But I
never saw any slowdown.

Is it worth you sending me the file by e-mail, and let me try it on my
"older" G5 iMac?

Mugwumper

PS - I've also got Office 2008 and iWork, so I could try it on those as well.
And I have an older version of OpenOffice - can't use the new one since
I don't have an Intel Mac . . . :^(
 
TheLordsServant said:
I downloaded OpenOffice Aqua. It doesn't appear to be any better, in fact, it's worse. Even with a brand new document, it can't keep up with typing, and scrolling takes around 10 seconds or more. Is my Powerbook really this slow?
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I use OpenOffice Aqua on my MBP and it's definitely acceptable. My guess is that OpenOffice Aqua is more engineered for Intel machines and perhaps the problem is due to a poor PPC version. I'm just guessing though.

FYI, for writing, I've found Scrivener to be invaluable. I've got three books going in it right now and, while I still use OO for word processing, Scrivener is invaluable for putting together a book. There's a free demo that last a while.

http://www.literatureandlatte.com/scrivener.html
 
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