OpenOffice Portable

Is it possible to run a portable app - specifically OOo - from a CD and use RAM or a temporary directory for transient data (which, of course, will be lost on closing the app)?

I am thinking in terms of a demonstration disk...

If this font is not installed in the system (c:\winnt\fonts),
one cannot see the formulas and stuff.

How one can force Portable Openoffice
to recognize this font without actually moving the font itself
to the windows folder,
e.g. if the font exists only on the USB drive?

Tichi

First of all, thanks to John for this wonderful adaptation of OO.

I've looked through the forums and so far haven't found any references to my question. So here is my question:

How do we deal with the Java Run-time Environment (JRE), for the database app, portably? Is this something that can be done? Or am I missing something?

Lads,

First I would like to thank John for this fabulous option to have your favorite apps with you on a usb stick.

My "problems" sofar has been that I would like to change the installation off OOo into the Dutch localization. I thought I could just copy and paste the files from an ordinary OOo 2.x off my windows partition to the exact location (programs folder) on my flash disk. Is this correct and/ or wich folders should be spared? Thanks alot for the answer. Got my GF already to use her flash drive with Firefox and Gaim at the local universaty....

Cheers.

I have similar problems to earlier posts. With getting 2.1 to open. I was running 2.0 from John's earlier site and it ran fine. When I removed it and installed 2.1 and ran it for the first time I got the "PortableOpenOffice.org" logo and it faded and that was it. No processes running, the program never loaded. I installed the patch available, although my path is extremely short the settings folder did not create itself. But still no luck. I am running XP SP2 Media Center Ed. Any ideas?

Since I am using Portable Apps Suite on a W2k system, I would like to upgrade the OpenOffice app to version 2.0.1 to take advantage of fixes to known issues. Can I update only the OpenOffice app or will I need to wait until the full suite is updated?

Hi

I like the "portable-Idea", atm i am making a gift for my girlfriend, usb-stick(1GB) with all she needs for the office. I played around with:
-Firefox 1.5
-Thunderbird 1.5
-Openoffice

T think there shoud be a directory called "en-US" in the folder "samples" in the folder "share":

PortableOpenOffice\openoffice\share\samples\en-US

i got an error on by clicking on the "sample" buton in "calc" under the "New/Templates and Documents"-menu.

BTW, you wrote about the localisation... it will be done later, cant it be done, by yust copy& paste it from a naitive installation ?

btw, the Viewer "Irfanview" can be started without installation ;-), maybe 1 Application more for http://portableapps.com

Is it possible to only install one app from the openoffice.org suite? I just need to use Calc while away from home, and I don't have the room on my 128MB USB drive to install the whole suite. Any way to do this? Anyone?

Whenever I try and copy over the decompressed Portable OO.o folder to my USB drive (OCZ Rally 512MB, USB2.0) I get an error like the following:

//Some File Name// File too deep.

Is there some way of getting around this, or do I have the wrong FS, I think it's FAT (probably 16)?

Hi all.

First of all I wish to say a big THANK YOU to John for it's extragood work: I really appreciate FF, TB and OOO portable!

Just a qeustion about PortableOOO: I have customized my "installed" versione of OpenOffice.org and I'd like to move all my setting to the portable edition, since I'll keep only the portable.

How to? I tried to move "C:\Program Files\OpenOffice\presets\" to "OpenOffice (portable)\settings\user\" but this isn't working as expected.

Thank you very much!