OpenOffice highly unstable

[golfer]

On 11/7/06, Jordi Ferrando Fabra <jferrando at netplc.com> wrote:
>
>  I have found OpenOffice 2.0.4 on edgy highly unstable. I have just lost one
> unsaved document containing 2 hours work. In addition of its unstability, it
> has the following annoying bugs:
>  - Fonts look awful. Seems that all decent font rendering schemes have been
> disabled. I have never seen such bad looking fonts in my system since early
> linux distributions 4 years ago.

We've been discussing this in another thread.  It's bug 54776 and
still no solution.  Apparently it just effects lcd displays.  I'm now
trying openoffice.org binary 2.0.4 with libfreetype.so.6.3.8 (dapper)
and it seems better on my lcd.

>  - Can't save in CIFS mounted shares (maybe CIFS fault?)

don't know what cifs is so can't help there.

HTH