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Re: Openoffice.org - has it been replaced by LibreOffice?



On Wed, 16 Nov 2011 17:37:52 +0000, Sian Mountbatten wrote:

> I tried using LibreOffice Writer to print a test letter which used two
> accented characters. What was printed was garbled rubbish. No accented
> letters and other letters replaced with `a's.

Bug number? :-P

Is that also happening when you print from Writer to a PS or PDF file?

> I should like to try OpenOffice.org, but its packages all say they have
> been repackaged as LibreOffice. So what has happened to OpenOffice.org?
> Who has decided that we've all got to use LibreOffice?

Decision was taken months ago and was a very good step, IMO. Oracle has 
been always unpredictable with their product licences :-/

Anyway, you can always go to the OpenOffice site and get the packages 
from there.

Greetings,

-- 
Camaleón


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