Thank you for the reply William. I guess I will have to try the sub-document solution pretty soon, as my thesis is getting lengthier and more graphical. The 4-to-5 minutes saving time is a killer, no kidding! I guess I don't have the 300-page thesis though. By the way, my thesis topic is "Modeling of Air-to-Air Heat Pump Simulation".
I started using the 2.0 beta version before I use 1.1.4 actually. The 2.0 definitely has better interface. But it turned me down when I tried to paste a visio drawing as a GDI metafile on a 2.0 document file. It crashed! I worked fine if I pasted the visio object. The file size will be hugh though. I kind of hestate to use 2.0 until the release version is out. I am sticking with 1.1.4 for my thesis because it is more stable. I think this will be the first ever Open Office thesis in my research group. Ipseng On 8/2/05, William W. Austin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 2005-08-02 11:33:55, Ipseng Iu wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I am a graduate student currenty write my thesis using the open office > > 1.1.4. I like this program especially the way it handles the equation > > object. It is easy and efficient! Thanks for the great work. > > > > I'd like comment on the saving time though. I realized that if the > > document size is big, it takes quite a long time to save. Sometimes I > > run into the problem that the program gives me error message and does > > not allow me to save the document anymore. I have to copy the entire > > document and paste it to a new file to save. By the way, all > > formating is gone by that. Right now I have 48 pages with lots of > > equations, text, and couple tables and figures. It takes about 20 to > > 30 seconds to save. I really hope the saving time could be improved > > because I save often. > > A couple of suggestions (Sigh. When I did my dissertation [theoretical > physics] back in the dark agae it was by typewriter [and cost a fortune > to have typed, sigh] ... but I digress.) > > I do research documents regularly (constantly?) and many of them run > 300-500 pages (the largest is 1700 pages) with 100+ large scatter plots > (created in the spreadsheet), 100-200 tables, footnotes/endnotes > (depending on where it's going), 50-500 equations. I agree with you > about both the ease of use :-) and about the slowness :-( > > A partial solution exists for the slowness, however. Read the help > page on master documents. Make each section a sub-document. Then you > work on them one at a time (but can still get to the whole thing via > the navigator. > > I had been having a lot worse problems than you describe with the saves > however. 4 to 5 minues is typical for a 300 page document such as I > describe on a *fast* machine with *very fast* scsi drives. (the saved > file is about 8-12 MB in ".odt" format, a little bigger in ".sxw") > Someone suggested the above technique just last Friday and I tried it > over the weekend. I can now call up that 300 page document and get to > all of the sections quickly - and the save time is *drastically* > reduced (I don't even have time to go down the hall for coffee while it > saves... sigh). > > BTW, you'll probably like 2.0 for technical-ish documents - it seems to > handle them better than 1.1.4 did, and it crashes (or loses docs) no > more often - at least in the 1.9.118 beta version (linux). > > Forgot to ask - what is the topic of your thesis? > > Hope this helps, > > ----------------------------------------------------------------------- > bill austin [EMAIL PROTECTED] > 90% of everything is crap. your mileage may vary. but i doubt it. > > -- Ipseng Iu Graduate Student Oklahoma State University, Stillwater --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
