I tried this same experiment using Microsoft Word 2007. It took about 20 seconds to paste the web page into Word. After that, interacting with the document was just as fast as interacting with a blank document. It is this interaction lag that I'm primary pointing out in this bug report.
** Description changed: Follow these steps to bring LibreOffice writer to a crawl: 1) Allow this page to fully load in firefox (in a new tab): http://www.amorosity.com/SlingBlade/ 2) Click on the page and hit ctrl-a, then ctrl-c (coping the entire page's contents into memory). 3) Open LibreOffice writer, and paste your clipboard into it. I don't mind waiting for all the images to get loaded. The main point here, is that performance is not only slow during the initial paste. After the images get fully loaded into the word processing document, interacting with the document becomes impractical. Everything you try to do makes the application hang for several seconds. I have 4 gigabytes of RAM available for LibreOffice writer to use as it wishes, but it must be using some type of swap file (instead) while I'm modifying this large document. However, I have a really fast solid-state hard drive, so you'd think that even that would be fast on my machine. My machine should have the specs to enable me the ability to handle - converting this large web page into word processing document. + converting this large web page into a word processing document. Yes there are other ways to achieve what I'm trying to do, but this bug is about how LibreOffice can't handle the job. If it was programmed just right, it would make use of the resources my computer would gladly - provide it, and scale up to this rather intensive job. + provide it, and scale up to this rather intensive task. ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 13.04 Package: libreoffice-writer 1:4.0.2-0ubuntu1 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.8.0-19.29-generic 3.8.8 Uname: Linux 3.8.0-19-generic x86_64 NonfreeKernelModules: wl ApportVersion: 2.9.2-0ubuntu8 Architecture: amd64 Date: Thu May 2 23:09:24 2013 InstallationDate: Installed on 2013-04-02 (31 days ago) InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 13.04 "Raring Ringtail" - Alpha amd64 (20130401) MarkForUpload: True SourcePackage: libreoffice UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install) -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to libreoffice in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1175882 Title: Performance Issues Dealing with Multiple Large Images Status in “libreoffice” package in Ubuntu: New Bug description: Follow these steps to bring LibreOffice writer to a crawl: 1) Allow this page to fully load in firefox (in a new tab): http://www.amorosity.com/SlingBlade/ 2) Click on the page and hit ctrl-a, then ctrl-c (coping the entire page's contents into memory). 3) Open LibreOffice writer, and paste your clipboard into it. I don't mind waiting for all the images to get loaded. The main point here, is that performance is not only slow during the initial paste. After the images get fully loaded into the word processing document, interacting with the document becomes impractical. Everything you try to do makes the application hang for several seconds. I have 4 gigabytes of RAM available for LibreOffice writer to use as it wishes, but it must be using some type of swap file (instead) while I'm modifying this large document. However, I have a really fast solid-state hard drive, so you'd think that even that would be fast on my machine. My machine should have the specs to enable me the ability to handle converting this large web page into a word processing document. Yes there are other ways to achieve what I'm trying to do, but this bug is about how LibreOffice can't handle the job. If it was programmed just right, it would make use of the resources my computer would gladly provide it, and scale up to this rather intensive task. ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 13.04 Package: libreoffice-writer 1:4.0.2-0ubuntu1 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.8.0-19.29-generic 3.8.8 Uname: Linux 3.8.0-19-generic x86_64 NonfreeKernelModules: wl ApportVersion: 2.9.2-0ubuntu8 Architecture: amd64 Date: Thu May 2 23:09:24 2013 InstallationDate: Installed on 2013-04-02 (31 days ago) InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 13.04 "Raring Ringtail" - Alpha amd64 (20130401) MarkForUpload: True SourcePackage: libreoffice UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install) To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/libreoffice/+bug/1175882/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
