Excel Degrading System?

[PGreene]

Version: 2008
Operating System: Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard)
Processor: Intel

In Mac OS 10.5.4, Excel has been behaving erratically. I removed Office 2008 and reinstalled it, and brought it up to date to v. 12.1.1

Here is the Console Message I see after opening Excel: (Should I be concerned enough to stop using Excel until there is a fix?)

7/22/08 7:52:03 PM [0x0-0x39039].com.microsoft.Excel[439] Tue Jul 22 19:52:03 Priscilla-Greenes-Computer.local Microsoft Excel[439] <Error>: The function `CGPDFDocumentGetMediaBox' is obsolete and will be removed in an upcoming update. Unfortunately, this application, or a library it uses, is using this obsolete function, and is thereby contributing to an overall degradation of system performance. Please use `CGPDFPageGetBoxRect' instead.
7/22/08 7:52:03 PM [0x0-0x39039].com.microsoft.Excel[439] Ignoring Quickdraw drawing between QDBeginCGContext and QDEndCGContext

 

[Pat McMillan]

Thanks for sending this along. I've passed the console message your seeing
onto one of our developers. I'm not aware of any issues related to this, but
I'll post to the list once I hear from our developer.

I do have a question about Excel "behaving erratically". Can you please give
some specific examples of this so we can investigate? Is Excel crashing? Are
you having performance problems? Whatever detail you can provide will be a
big help.

Thanks,

Pat

Version: 2008
Operating System: Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard)
Processor: Intel

In Mac OS 10.5.4, Excel has been behaving erratically. I removed Office 2008
and reinstalled it, and brought it up to date to v. 12.1.1

Here is the Console Message I see after opening Excel: (Should I be concerned
enough to stop using Excel until there is a fix?)

7/22/08 7:52:03 PM [0x0-0x39039].com.microsoft.Excel[439] Tue Jul 22 19:52:03
Priscilla-Greenes-Computer.local Microsoft Excel[439] <Error>: The function
`CGPDFDocumentGetMediaBox' is obsolete and will be removed in an upcoming
update. Unfortunately, this application, or a library it uses, is using this
obsolete function, and is thereby contributing to an overall degradation of
system performance. Please use `CGPDFPageGetBoxRect' instead.
7/22/08 7:52:03 PM [0x0-0x39039].com.microsoft.Excel[439] Ignoring Quickdraw
drawing between QDBeginCGContext and QDEndCGContext

 

[Pat McMillan]

A quick follow up to this: I've talked with our developers and the message
in the Console is most likely not causing any specific system performance
problems, although we will likely remove our call to that function in the
future, since it is now obsolete.

Thanks,

Pat

Version: 2008
Operating System: Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard)
Processor: Intel

In Mac OS 10.5.4, Excel has been behaving erratically. I removed Office 2008
and reinstalled it, and brought it up to date to v. 12.1.1

Here is the Console Message I see after opening Excel: (Should I be concerned
enough to stop using Excel until there is a fix?)

7/22/08 7:52:03 PM [0x0-0x39039].com.microsoft.Excel[439] Tue Jul 22 19:52:03
Priscilla-Greenes-Computer.local Microsoft Excel[439] <Error>: The function
`CGPDFDocumentGetMediaBox' is obsolete and will be removed in an upcoming
update. Unfortunately, this application, or a library it uses, is using this
obsolete function, and is thereby contributing to an overall degradation of
system performance. Please use `CGPDFPageGetBoxRect' instead.
7/22/08 7:52:03 PM [0x0-0x39039].com.microsoft.Excel[439] Ignoring Quickdraw
drawing between QDBeginCGContext and QDEndCGContext

 

[Stuart]

Pat,
I'm seeing a lot of my users with this problem as well. I haven't checked into the console, but we are seeing serious system degradation. This includes very aggressive slowness. The system will actually type 1 character per second, or less. Copy and paste is terrible as well. I hope its something addressed in a future update.

Stuart

A quick follow up to this: I've talked with our developers and the message
in the Console is most likely not causing any specific system performance
problems, although we will likely remove our call to that function in
the future, since it is now obsolete.





Thanks,





Pat

Version: 2008 > Operating System: Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard) > Processor:

Intel > > In Mac OS 10.5.4, Excel has been behaving erratically. I removed
Office 2008 > and reinstalled it, and brought it up to date to v. 12.1.1concerned > enough to stop using Excel until there is a fix?) > > 7/22/08
7:52:03 PM [0x0-0x39039].com.microsoft.Excel[439] Tue Jul 22 19:52:03

Priscilla-Greenes-Computer.local Microsoft Excel[439] : The function
`CGPDFDocumentGetMediaBox' is obsolete and will be removed in an upcoming
update. Unfortunately, this application, or a library it uses, is using

this > obsolete function, and is thereby contributing to an overall degradation
of > system performance. Please use `CGPDFPageGetBoxRect' instead. > 7/22/08
7:52:03 PM [0x0-0x39039].com.microsoft.Excel[439] Ignoring Quickdraw >
drawing between QDBeginCGContext and QDEndCGContext





-- Pat McMillan Macintosh Business Unit Microsoft Corp. This posting is
provided �AS IS� with no warranties, and confers no rights.

 

[davehoward3]

Pat,
I'm seeing a lot of my users with this problem as well. I haven't checkedinto the console, but we are seeing serious system degradation. This includes very aggressive slowness. The system will actually type 1 character persecond, or less. Copy and paste is terrible as well. I hope its something addressed in a future update.

Stuart

      A quick follow up to this: I've talked with our developers and the message
      in the Console is most likely not causing any specific systemperformance
      problems, although we will likely remove our call to that function in
      the future, since it is now obsolete.

      Thanks,

      Pat

      On 7/22/08 5:14 PM, in article (e-mail address removed)9absDaxw, "(e-mail address removed)"
      wrote:

      > Version: 2008 > Operating System: Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard) >Processor:
      Intel > > In Mac OS 10.5.4, Excel has been behaving erratically. I removed
      Office 2008 > and reinstalled it, and brought it up to date to v. 12.1.1
      > > Here is the Console Message I see after opening Excel: (Should I be
      concerned > enough to stop using Excel until there is a fix?)> > 7/22/08
      7:52:03 PM [0x0-0x39039].com.microsoft.Excel[439] Tue Jul 22 19:52:03
      > Priscilla-Greenes-Computer.local Microsoft Excel[439] : Thefunction
      > `CGPDFDocumentGetMediaBox' is obsolete and will be removed in an upcoming
      > update. Unfortunately, this application, or a library it uses, is using
      this > obsolete function, and is thereby contributing to an overall degradation
      of > system performance. Please use `CGPDFPageGetBoxRect' instead. > 7/22/08
      7:52:03 PM [0x0-0x39039].com.microsoft.Excel[439] Ignoring Quickdraw >
      drawing between QDBeginCGContext and QDEndCGContext

      -- Pat McMillan Macintosh Business Unit Microsoft Corp. This posting is
      provided �AS IS� with no warranties, and confers no rights.

Hi

I'm also getting this message. My whole system seems to be affected,
not just excel. Some applications take minutes to open or close & I am
no longer able to run two or three applications together - especially
Itunes with almost anything. This has been happening since around the
time that I installed both 10.5.4 & Quicktime 7.5 - sometime in July.
I have tried re-installing both original software & 10.5 to no avail.
Has anyone got the solution to this problem [I'm running the latest
software on a 24" IMAC 2.16Ghz Intel Core 2 Duo with 2GB Ram]

Dave