Graham Lauder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tuesday 15 January 2008 08:24:28 Twayne wrote: >> Hi, >> >> XP Pro, 512 RAM, 2.7 GHz P4, reasonably sure free of virus/malware. >> ... > > > Hi Twayne,
Hi Again, I tried out your recommendations on the largest piece I had left rather than the full document and ran into some problems but they might be system problems as opposed to OOo, so I'll tell you a bit about them and then just say I'll be back when I'm more sure of my situation. You've been a great help so far and I appreciate your time. Any furhter comments are certainly welcome. I didn't experiment with the URL you provided because I believed you and thought the time was better spent with my actual situation. The file I chose was 86,224 K in size, so not small by any means. The copy/paste went well and a little patience/perseverence allowed the newly pasted file to be saved. It was 85,382K in size, about a Meg drop in size. Yes, lots of images, partly why I chose that particular one. AFTER the save to .odt, it would not open again in OOo. Then I noticed my Page File had jumped to about 700 Meg and was remaining there, even after I closed oOffice. In fact, system RAM was filled too and even something so simple as Exlorer upped the Page File size. Looking at resources, I found about 7 open soffice.bin files and two soffice.exe files. I managed to kill those processes (sOffice was NOT running and not listed as running in the Apps window) but nothing would return the RAM and the Page File just grew with everything/anything I tried to do. A reboot cleared that out, but ... I was able to reduplicate it again by once more copying/pasting to a new, empty OO file. Another reboot, and I started my video editing apps, which are the main users of the PF on this system, and it used and then returned memory to me as it was supposed to and as I was used to seeing. So ... unless you have some ideas, I think I need to do more homework before I'll be sure what the actual root of the memory problem is. Apparently that's been at the root of my problems all along; I just didn't realize what it was. Not that I have my head around it at all yet. I guess I just didn't expect it to become this complex. Regards, Twayne > > I'm trying to figure your problem because I rarely have an issue with > this . My assumption is that you created the document in MSWord and > then opened the resulting doc with Writer. Does your document have a > lot of graphics. I'm just asking because 100 megs for a 400 page > document seem a bit on the high side. > > If I'm going to edit a document in Writer that has been created in > Word I open it with OOo, copy all the text and then paste > special>unformatted text into a new document. This gets rid of all > of the garbage that word puts into the background of the document and > that includes styles then I reformat using Stylist. If I'm in a > hurry I'll sometimes use paste special>formatted text(rtf) > > Word users tend to format on the fly and that means that each bit of > formatting is a separate piece of code which tends to make them a > little on the heavy side. Everytime a word document is closed, saved > then reopened more garbage is added. > > Take for instance this document > http://www.minedu.govt.nz/web/downloadable/dl8030_v1/cat-newsletter-8.doc > > The download size on my comp is 4.2 MB > > After copy>paste special>formatted text the file is now 90.6kb. A > couple of graphics were dumped and I had to create a landscape style > to get some tables to display properly, but nothing major.(try it > yourself you'll see what I mean) > > Now, I add the caveat that I'm using SuSELinux rather than windows > but I doubt that there would be a great difference. > > Document interchange between Word and Writer is a black art at the > best of times because MS won't release details of their file formats. > It is pretty close to perfect, which says something amazing about OOo > Developer's back engineering abilities, but sometimes there is a > cost when working at extremes, in this case file size. > > Normally I work on an ODT file being about 25% of the size of the > same file saved as a doc. That's a simple open in OOo and save as > *.odt. > > Get rid of all the garbage however by doing paste special and you can > do a lot better and OOo will deal with it very quickly. > > Cheers > GL --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
