Hi :) I kinda assumed it was the extremely large file-size and number of pages? I know people have written books with LO but isn't there something more fit-fot-purpose, such as inkscape? Regards from Tom :)
>________________________________ > From: David Ronis <ro...@ronispc.chem.mcgill.ca> >To: Girvin Herr <girvin.h...@sbcglobal.net> >Cc: users@global.libreoffice.org >Sent: Thursday, 11 April 2013, 18:59 >Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Printing speed is glacial for large file > > >Hi Girvin, > >Most of the graphics in the document are PDF pages that I've imported >into Draw and then cut and pasted them into an odt file, which in turn >is incorporated into the full document as laid out in the odm file. > >Also normal scrolling of the odm document is horrendously slow as well >(minutes to scroll to the next page and redraw). > >David > > >-----Original Message----- >From: Girvin Herr <girvin.h...@sbcglobal.net> >To: users@global.libreoffice.org >Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Printing speed is glacial for large >file >Date: Thu, 11 Apr 2013 10:21:16 -0700 > > >On 04/10/2013 03:13 PM, David Ronis wrote: >> I have a project managed by an odm file that ends up being ca 1600 pages >> long and contains several OLE objects, many graphics (some comprising >> entire pages that started out as PDFs). I find LO unbelievably slow >> (even on such simple things as refreshing the window after remapping >> it). I've turned of recording/displaying changes, upped the graphics >> cache numbers, set the swap directory to a ram disk, and turned off all >> to-disk swapping; nothing helps. This is on a 2 CPU machine with gig's >> of ram. >> >> I'm currently trying to print the project to a file (postscript >> format). This takes 4-6 hours, with 1 of the CPU's running at 100% [BTW >> is LO multi-threaded?]. The resulting postscript file is big, (about >> 350M) but not that big. >> >> I'm on a Slackware Linux box. >> >> Any suggestions? >> >> David >> >David, >There is a known problem with LO and Encapsulated PostScript (EPS) >graphics. They slow down video rendering tremendously, causing >frustrating long scrolling time. This may also cause a problem with >printing, I never tried it. When I converted my document's EPS images >to JPEG, LO rendering/scrolling sped up tremendously. >Hope this helps. >(Fellow Slacker.) >Girvin Herr > > >-- >For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+h...@global.libreoffice.org >Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ >Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette >List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ >All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted > > > >-- >For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+h...@global.libreoffice.org >Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ >Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette >List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ >All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted > > > > -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
