LibreOffice Portable

Hi all,

I just have 3-4 quick questions if you please?

D/L'ing LO 3.5.3.1 which goes okay!

But under the download link it has:
Bug Fix: Visual C runtime warning even once installed
which is link of: Bug Fix: Visual C runtime warning even once installed
But when clicking that link - it gives a Page Not Found (404 Error)!
Is this something to be concerned about??

Hello,
is it me or rather my machine or is 3.5.3.2 rather bug-ridden?
It crashes on pdf-export, crashes from time to time for no specific reason, sometimes won't open, sometimes tries to restore a file for no reason (no crash beforehand, will not happen if file is opened by OO).
I don't get it. I run OO port. (3.2) along with LO port, right now I'm using OO because of the bugs.
LO 3.4 (I think) ran without much incidents.
A clean install does not help, still the same glitches.

I've noticed that the new LibreOffice launcher offers to install the runtime when necessary, but I have a couple questions about how this works.
1.) Does this require admin rights? (I'm assuming yes, but I just want to make sure since I don't have a machine I can safely test this on.)
2.) If yes, are there any plans to implement this so that the runtime can be handled without needing admin rights?

The new launcher unfortunately leaves folders ns*.tmp with registry.dll
when it completely closes.
This happens with the 3.5.3.1, which I've downloaded from
https://portableapps.com/apps/office/libreoffice_portable
just today.
Hope this helps to find the source of the problem:
1) This behavior is also present in LibreOfficePortable.exe launcher fix 2
2) This doesn't exist in the patched LibreOfficePortable.exe launcher
from May 11, 2012 -
https://portableapps.com/downloads/app_extras/libreoffice/no_vcr_check/L...

I updated LibreOffice to the latest version 3.5.3. Aside from the notice that MS Visual C++ 2008 runtime is not installed (when it actually is) LibreOffice runs unacceptably slow for some reason. It takes 10-12 seconds for the drop down menus to actually drop down. Load and start can take 2-3 minutes. Loading a document can take as long. No problem before 3.5.3. LibreOffice in this version is unusable. Discarded/uninstalled. Trying to decide how I can get back to previous version or maybe back to OpenOffice. My system is XP SP3, 1.6mhz clock speed, 2gig ram.

There are still few quirks in LOP launcher. For example, if you reboot PC, next time LOP will not start saying it's already running. Same with PC crash, etc. It should check for running processes instead of relying exclusively on file based locks.

I originally posted this at the following link.

https://portableapps.com/node/32172

After some experimentation moving previous installs in and out of the portable apps folder of both LibreOffice and jportable I am unable to find a solution.

I didn't know how to move the original post so I have linked to it within the body of this post,

Thanks,

Hugh

I can not get the language selection to work, on the website the description states that it will delete all languages except English and the selected language.
What is the selected language? I mean there is nothing to select during installation.
Can someone please help me?

For some users, LibreOffice 3.5.3 will not run at all, even after allowing the Visual C++ runtimes to install. This is the topic for that bug.

Fix 2: Fixes fonts and VC runtime

On some computers, LibreOffice Portable 3.5.3 will mistakenly detect that the MS Visual C++ 2008 runtime is not installed when it actually is. We're looking into the exact cause at the moment. If you are affected, you can help us by providing us information on what operating system it's running on and searching your C: drive for the file msvcr90.dll and letting us know where it is installed. We already have a partial fix working, but this could help provide us with a complete one encompassing any edge cases.

Fix 2: Better detection