Re: [libreoffice-users] Printing speed is glacial for large file

Hi Andrew,

Thanks for the reply.  In short, I'd already upped the memory options
for graphics (250MB total, 10MB per object, 100 objects) and tools like
free etc. show that I'm nowhere close to using all my memory (with or
without swapping enabled).

David

On Thu, 2013-04-11 at 22:04 -0400, Andrew Douglas Pitonyak wrote:
> Have you attempted anything in particular to see if it allows for a 
> speed improvement? For example:
>
>
> 1. Check on memory usage. How high is it? Are you running out of memory?
>
> 2. Change graphics settings:
>
> Tools > Options > LibreOffice > Memory
>
> Then try increasing the memory for things such as graphics objects and 
> number of objects?
>
>
> On 04/11/2013 01:59 PM, David Ronis wrote:
> > 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.herr@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
>
> -- 
> Andrew Pitonyak
> My Macro Document: http://www.pitonyak.org/AndrewMacro.odt
> Info:  http://www.pitonyak.org/oo.php

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