Re: [libreoffice-users] LibreOffice crawling on converted .doc file

Kevin

On Mon, 2011-08-22 at 11:28 -0400, Op Ed wrote: 

> I had a couple of hundred e-mail messages in Outlook 2007 (on Win XP Pro)
> that I needed to export, so they ended up as an Adobe Acrobat "Portfolio" (a
> couple of hundred individual PDFs within some sort of PDF-ish wrapper).
>
> I then used a function in Acrobat Pro to mush them all into one, and finally
> exported that one big document as a .doc file.
>
> With MS Word 2007, I can quickly open the file and then scroll around it as
> needed.
> With LibreOffice Writer (3.4.1), the file takes a while to open, and then
> every operation is agonizingly slow. Scrolling takes place as one
> screen-full jump every 2-to-3 seconds, and attempting to scroll some
> distance gets cached and then slowly enacted over the next minute or so.
>
> It's unusable.
>
> I have other files that I've created in LO or in Word, that work fine in LO,
> including some 100+ page documents.
>
> Does anyone have any suggestions on what I could do to make this document
> behave in LO?
>  OR is there a different path to get from 200+ Outlook messages to a single,
> scrollable, searchable .doc or .odt file (with formatting and highlighting
> preserved)?
>
> Thank you.
>
>  </kevin>

You might try installing 3.4.2, which was recently released.  

Once you have the document open, try saving it as an ODT then opening
the ODT version.

If you still have the PDF file you might try opening it directly in
Writer (you may need an extension)

-- 
Jay Lozier
jslozier@gmail.com

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