Do you have any transparent PNG as background ? (this is, PNG with an alpha channel is sufficient) Does this still happen if you convert all your backgrounds to JPEG ? I speculate you won't encounter your problem any more.
This could be related to http://www.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=76784 See my comment (karmak) on the OOO bug webpage. ** Bug watch added: OpenOffice.org Issue Tracker #76784 http://www.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=76784 ** Also affects: openoffice (upstream) via http://www.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=76784 Importance: Unknown Status: Unknown -- Writer eats X server memory when using transparent PNG as page background https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/104747 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is the bug contact for Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs