OpenOffice 3.0 - currently broken

[Jonas Norlander]

2008/12/15 Michael Krueger <mickrulist at voipfuture.com>:
> Jonas Norlander wrote:
>> 2008/12/15 lanzen <lanzenesi at gmail.com>:
>>
>>> On Monday 15 December 2008 11:17:35 Michael Krueger wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>> I don't think so... there is still something strange - at least under
>>>> Kubuntu. I did follow the steps and OpenOffice is working again -
>>>> partially. Now the remaining issue I have is PDF export. Neither the
>>>> quick export from the toolbar nor the one from the file menu is working
>>>> anymore. OpenOffice just freezes once I select the PDF export feature.
>>>> Anybody else having this issue? Any suggestion how to possibly fix that?
>>>>
>>> I think you need to install Sun's OOo3 if you want that to work.
>>>
>>>
>>
>> I just did a quick test and exported a small text file to PDF and it
>> worked OOo 3 from PPA without the openoffice.org-kde.
>>
>> / Jonas
>>
>>
> I did install OOo3 from this location:
> http://ppa.launchpad.net/openoffice-pkgs/ubuntu intrepid main
>
> I did install openoffice.org-kde as well. Then the fixes as described in
> this thread.
> The PDF export did work prior the ...6 update. Now it doesn't.

Thats the same version i use but i did not apply any of the "fixes" in
this thread except uninstalling the openoffice.org-kde package and
OpenOffice works fine for me and a quick test trying to export a small
tex file to PDF worked fine for me.

> So what do you mean with the Sun OOo3... ? If you mean the setup from
> their homepage, then I can say that I have tried them prior following
> the suggestions in this thread. I was not able to make them work.

I did not say anything about Suns OpenOffice that was Lanzen, I have
not tried it.

/ Jonas