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OpenOffice Portable

Security, Privacy, Confidentiality, and Anonymity with documents

Submitted by petepele on March 17, 2009 - 7:52pm

Hello,
I have OpenOffice on a USB drive. I want to work on confidential documents when I plug it into other computers. If I do this, will any part of the file, image of it, keystrokes, etc. be left on the host computer? Or, if i use OpenOffice portable on a document from the USB drive, does all of the information stay on the USB drive or does any of the file information make it to the computer?
Thanks

Fonts

Submitted by kilogram on March 12, 2009 - 8:32pm

I have some really cool fonts that I want to keep with me... and I don't want to have to download it to every single computer that I use. Is there any way that I can keep my fonts with me, and use them with all the Office applications?

Impress Portable - Doesn't work

Submitted by steve3 on March 12, 2009 - 6:31pm

I downloaded OO portable app 3.0.1 to a flash drive, a drive that had an Impress file on it.

I took the drive to the library (which doesn't have OO) to work on it but it took forever to load. It took so long that I thought it wasn't working (it's a 65MB file). After alt-ctl-del a few times (software wasn't even "responding"), I finally got it on the screen but every task was delayed. If I tried clicking on "Insert," "Format," or "Tools" it would take 5 - 10 seconds. And forget about scrolling down through the slides - it would go, stop and freeze everything.

Impress - autofit text

Submitted by bkristan on March 11, 2009 - 1:00pm

I use OOo on my Ubuntu linux box, and use portable OOo to display my Impress presentations on windows. On my linux box, OOo 3 has an "autofit text" option for the body of slides, which adjusts the size of the text automatically when it exceeds the size of the text box. You can enable to option by right-clicking the text box (it appears between Text... and Position and size...), but this option isn't available by right-clicking in portable OOo and I can't find it in the menus either.

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