gnome ,openoffice in slack11!!
 

Hi I just install slackware 11 after using 10 for almost two year now. Everything going fine and I notice that it didn't have gnome desktop anymore , well,I wasn't complaing because I am a kde fan . But recently I need to to write 50-60 document with a lot of picture on it and kword was doing ok.And then after writing ten pages I found out that I run out of ink in my printer and I need to printf my doucment in a cyber cafe and in kword I don't see any way to save the doucment as doc (microsoft) format.I live in burma and in burma people are not familiar with the term linux and a few expert who know linux mistake red hat as sole linux distributions.Getting anywhere in burma print kword format is a mission impossible.And I remember that openoffice got .doc format , so I download the openoffice from it website and install it as root in a shell (./install )and it inttall it in /usr/src/openoffice folder and when I try to run any bin file such as soffice or anyother thing I get segement core fault and could not run anything .I tried linuxpackages.net and all the .tgz file are above 120 mb at 4 to 6 kb per sec whiche would take 6 to 9 hours to finish the download .In burma that is also impossible ,I am lucky enought to get someone send me slack11 cd from aboard .Well I althought I been using slackware since 9.x I am still a newbie and I need to printf those document ,I need to print in color so even if I buy new ink cartiage it won't do . Is there anyway I could install openoffice without going throught much problem by downloading .tgz file from linuxpackages.net
thanks!!

I suppose you still have the file that you downloaded from Openoffice.org?

Go to http://www.slackbuilds.org/repositor...penoffice.org/ , download the slackbuild and use that to install Openoffice.org. It fixes some bugs from the official installer, too.

Thanks man ,I still have that file and I'll try with slackbuild.
sorry about not replying earlier I haven't been to net lately.

Alternatively you could save the file in Kword as .rtf.
MSOffice "understands" this format.

Thanks for the recommendation to SlackBuilds.org - we appreciate it.

For what it's worth, if you'd prefer a package that was built using that script, it's hosted at http://slackpacks.rlworkman.net (along with a few others - note that you should *definitely* read my ChangeLog if you use anything there).

I try it with rtf format also but the problem with that format is that it save the text file but when u open it in ms office all the picture in it are lost.It issue the warning that the format will be change but when I try it save the text format and all but picture were lost. The Document I am writing is about gem thesis and of course it only get full mark if you could show the gem .I have to download the open office again because I had download it 1.5 version and slackbuild got only for version 2.1.

Why don't you export the document in PDF?
 

Hello :-)
You can export the document in PDF format from KWord. Later on you can open a PDF from anywhere as long as the Computer has Adobe Acrobat Reader installed.

I just found out about it later . When I tried save as ,I didn't find pdf format and I assume kwords didn't have support for it but later I found out that I could save as pdf by printing as pdf , I didn't know that.