OOo presenter in Hebrew

[Shlomi Fish]

On Saturday 26 Dec 2009 00:15:34 Uri Even-Chen wrote:
> OK, I'm trying to download Open Office now (version 3.11).  The file
> size is 150MB - it's huge!  

This is expected given that it is an office suite and not a web-browser, which 
has a much more limited functionality built-in. I wouldn't expect a Microsoft 
Office download to be less of a burden, but most people buy (or copy) 
Microsoft Office on CDs/DVDs. According to 
http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/fog0000000020.html , MS Excel 5.0 took 
15 MB of hard-disk space, while Excel 2000 took 146MB , and this is just the 
spreadsheet functionality excluding the word processing, presentation 
preparation and other things that are given in OpenOffice.org. I would expect 
the recent MS Offices to be even larger.

Naturally, given that OpenOffice.org is FOSS (= free and open source 
software), you can legally buy it on a CD and even legally sell it. Richard 
Stallman told us that after he quit the MIT AI Lab to start the GNU project, 
he was able to make a modest living by selling GNU software that he recorded 
on tapes (that was a long time before CDs became common) and selling them to 
people without a good Internet connection. See:

http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/selling.html

> Comparing to about 8MB of Firefox.  I
> think end users will not bother to download such a big file.  

Well, they can always pay for a CD or get it some other way. It's no different 
than MS Office which also needs to be acquired somehow. At least with 
OpenOffice.org there's a legal HTTP/BitTorrent download, however large, which 
people with a good Internet connection can use, which is much more than I can 
say about Microsoft Office.

> Although
> I have fast connection (1.5Mb download), it would take about 15
> minutes to download such a file.  

OK, I routinely download files of a similar scope (CD/DVD ISOs, collections of 
mp3s/oggs, .rpm updates etc.). 

> I will then test my Word & Excel
> files with Open Office and let you know what I think.

Thanks!

Regards,

	Shlomi Fish
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> On Sun, Dec 20, 2009 at 8:40 AM, Dotan Cohen <dotancohen at gmail.com> wrote:
> > I never used Open Office Presenter. A user sent me a slideshow that
> > she created in Windows OOo 3.1. She claims that in the design view it
> > shows fine, but in the display view the Hebrew is reversed. When
> > viewing the slideshow on my Kubuntu system with OOo 3.1 it looks fine.
> > Does anyone have experience with this? What could be her problem?
> >
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