Open Office 10.0.3 extremely slow to load (i.e. 15 minutes)

[caruth]

Hi all,
Open office takes 15 minutes to load on my system. iBook G4 933 MHz 640 MB RAM. Where I am defining loading as the time to get to the splash screen.

I installed it as root and am using it as a normal user. However it takes 15 minutes to load if I log in as root/admin as well.

I am sure this is not my system. An older version 1 only took 1 minute on a 133 MHz Pentium running Linux.

When I sample the process through Activity Monitor it does appear to be running a time out process many many times during start up, so it appears to be searching for something or waiting upon something.

I have not been able to find any info on the net to help me out.

Can someone tell me what is likely to be wrong with the settings on my system as it is extremely annoying as I like the app.

Many thanks

[zacht]

Could you please post a little more info, such as which version of the operating system you're using and which version of X11 you have installed?

Do any other programs have similar startup delays?

Have you tried reinstalling OpenOffice? Or maybe even reinstalling X11?

zach

[caruth]

I'm running Mac OS 10.3 and whatever version of X11 came on the install disks - I think X11R6 (??) - sorry I'm posting from another computer, can't provide anymore info than that.

I am trying to avoid having to reinstall anything. I thought this was a windows solution ;-)

Everything else on the system runs fine, though my iTunes prefs got messed up by - I think the file vault program - which thinking about it now may cause problems to Openoffice.

Other X11 apps seem to be fine, I have no problems running GIMP, and got Abiword installed through Fink and running without any problems.

I have also done the fixing preferences stuff and so on ...

Thanks for any thoughts. Maybe it will come down to reinstalling open office.

Bye

[sao]

caruth wrote:
Open office takes 15 minutes to load on my system
A bit more info could help, like which version of OOo did you installed? But, I thinks it's a Font problem.

You probably can fix it by removing Apple's non-western fonts from OOo. The installer automatically converts all of the MacOS X Native fonts in your /Library/Fonts and ~/Library/Fonts directories. And some MacOS X fonts simply don't work well with OOo. These are primarily the "asian language" fonts.

You can make a list of fonts that don't look good in your fonts pull down menus. Once you have the list you can quit OOo and manually clean up <your-ooo-directory>/share/fonts/truetype by discarding the ones that don't work well.

Also, remove Lucida Grande from your <OOO-folder>/share/fonts/truetype folder.

If that doesn't work, here is a list of possible problems:

1- Reinstall Apple's X11 from the third CD that came with Panther (double click the "X11User.pkg")

2- CrashReporter logs?
(look in your Library/Logs/CrashReporter folder)

3- APE is a problem for OOo - Same is Norton AntiVirus
Turn them off. (And also disable ClearDock and WindowShade)

4- Check in Terminal.app your : java -version
It should be:
[pm @ Sao: ~] % java -version
java version "1.4.1_01"
Java(TM) 2 Runtime Environment, Standard Edition (build 1.4.1_01-99)
Java HotSpot(TM) Client VM (build 1.4.1_01-27, mixed mode)

5- Do you have MacOS 9 Fonts in /Library/Fonts?
If you do, drag all of the MacOS 9 fonts out of /Library/Fonts to a temp folder on the desktop (keep only MacOS X fonts in /Library/Fonts)

[caruth]

Thank you very much for your help. I shall work on my fonts tonight and if need be reinstall X11 and then if need be again reinstall OOo.

Thanks again for your help

[gsfgf]

Try building from source