Re: [libreoffice-users] cant open a 65 MB .doc in LibreOffice 3.3.0

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From: Ivan Gutierrez Agramont <ivan.guag@gmail.com>
To: users@libreoffice.org
Sent: Sun, 20 February, 2011 22:59:34
Subject: [libreoffice-users] cant open a 65 MB .doc in LibreOffice 3.3.0

Hello list, this is my first mail to all of you, well I used to have
OpenOffice 3.2.1 till thursday in my Ubuntu Lucid machine, now i have
changed to Libre Office 3.3.0 and now i cant open a 65 MB .doc document, but
in OpenOffice i could do it? do you know why could this be? any help?

cheers
Ivan Gutierrez Agramont


Hi :)

I think it might be worth posting a bug report about this as it 'should' work.  
You said 65Mb which is huge but presumably you meant 65Kb (which is tiny)?  


If it is a huge file then it might help to know how much Ram and virtual memory 
you have got.  Are you using Windows or Linux?  If linux then please let us know 
the results of this command

free -m

Does the document have a LOT of pictures and stuff in it?  Could you post the 
document on imageshack or soemthing so that we can try to work out what is going 
wrong.  If it is confidential or if you are shy about it then don't worry as we 
do not NEED to see it.

If the document really is that large (65MB) then would it be possible to break 
it down into smaller documents such as chapters, months or something?

The .doc format is really quite nasty and most people can now read .odt unless 
they have old versions of MS Office.  Could you re-install OpenOffice (but not 
let it use it's quick-launcher and avoid making it the default for opening 
documents)?  Then open the document and re-save it as .odt instead of .doc?  Can 
LibreOffice open the odt?  If so then can it now save as .doc (using a different 
name, perhaps add vLO-2011-02-21 to the file-name for this test).  If people 
can't read odt then just give them a link to the LibreOffice download page, or 
the OpenOffice one, so that they can install a more up-to-date and less 
vulnerable Office Suite.

I'm just suggesting a few different approaches here as no-one else seems to have 
been able to give a good answer yet and i don't really have any good ideas 
myself either.
Good luck and regards from
Tom :)



      
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