Libre Office problems in High Sierra

[Bruce Whittington]

Is anyone who uses Libre Office in High Sierra experiencing problems? Since I updated the OS, saving a document in LO causes it to crash. Also, printing is sometimes problematic, setting the page orientation incorrectly. This orientation issue has also occurred on some image files printed in Aperture (I know, it's not supported . . . ) in High Sierra only. I am still using Sierra on my MacBook Pro, so transferred some files over there. They print normally using LO. I saved LO files (.odt) as .docx files on the laptop, then tried opening them in Pages on my iMac to print. Same page orientation problem in Pages, but possibly just duplicating faulty formatting from LO? Or is there some bug in High Sierra? I have been able on the iMac to copy text from .odt files into .docx files with the same layout (photo cards) in Pages, and they seem to print okay. From what I read on the LO sites this is a known problem, but I wonder why Aperture is showing similar problems. There is some inconsistency in all this, so I am wasting expensive card stock and photo paper with every mistake or experiment.

 

[chas_m]

Is anyone who uses Libre Office in High Sierra experiencing problems? Since I updated the OS, saving a document in LO causes it to crash.

Not seeing that here. It's been a while since I needed to open LO, but I am of course running High Sierra and am using version 6.0.0.3 of LibreOffice. Opened both a new Writer document and saved it, and opened a test Word file and saved it in odt format, no problems.

Also, printing is sometimes problematic, setting the page orientation incorrectly. This orientation issue has also occurred on some image files printed in Aperture (I know, it's not supported . . . ) in High Sierra only.

Again, not seeing that issue here. This could be a bug in HS, but sounds more like you may need to update the printer driver.

There is some inconsistency in all this, so I am wasting expensive card stock and photo paper with every mistake or experiment.

Until you can determine what the real issue is, export the document in LO to PDF format, then print the PDF from Preview.

I have to say LO is really not the right tool for the job of printing photo cards ... Pages does a far better and simpler job of it.

 

[Bruce Whittington]

Chas, I did not install version 6.0.0.3 because the web site advised "If you're a technology enthusiast, early adopter or power user, this version is for you!", whereas it said of version 5.4.5 "If you deploy LibreOffice in an enterprise or corporate environment or are a conservative user, please choose this version." Since I posted my initial query, a new version 5.4.5.1 was offered. So I downloaded that. Fingers crossed, I think it is printing okay now. But it still has problems saving documents. When I try to save a short document in LO format (.odt file), I get this message on the screen:



However, fingers crossed, LO did save the document ("save a copy") as a .docx file, so I have something. And I can still use LO in Sierra on my MBP, but I am reluctant to upgrade to High Sierra until I am sure LO will work.

Chas, if you (or anyone else) can confirm that 6.0.0.3 does not exhibit these issues on High Sierra, I will give that a try.

 

[chas_m]

Chas, if you (or anyone else) can confirm that 6.0.0.3 does not exhibit these issues on High Sierra, I will give that a try.

I believe I did confirm that in the post above ...