https://issues.apache.org/ooo/show_bug.cgi?id=122199
Bug ID: 122199
Issue Type: DEFECT
Summary: Page rendering for long documents may cause OpenOffice
to stall, preventing use of, e.g. Calc
Classification: Application
Product: Writer
Version: AOO 3.4.1
Hardware: Mac
OS: Mac OSX, all
Status: UNCONFIRMED
Severity: normal
Priority: P3
Component: formatting
Assignee: [email protected]
Reporter: [email protected]
CC: [email protected]
Created attachment 80617
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Used page format settings
Hard & Software environment: 2.16 GHz Intel Core Duo, iMac, 4GB RAM, OS X
10.7.5
User Scenario:
A user work on a particularly long Writer document and has a Calc document
open, too. When changing the page margins the values for the left and right
margin are (accidentally or not) set in way way that only few characters fit on
a line (and therefore on a page).
In this particular case:
* Document info: I used the text of James Joyce's 'Ulysses', without line or
page breaks, copied into a single document several times (7-10 times should
do).
* Font: Times New Roman 28pt
* Page format: A4, land scape (so width is 21 cm
* Right margin: 10cm
* Left margin: 10.5 cm (see attached screen shot)
Actual Behaviour:
* Writer renders pages to a very long time (I waited more than 3 hours…)
* OpenOffice is displayed as 'unresponsive' in the Mac's activity monitor (see
screenshot)
* Calc can't be used anymore, a 'beach ball' mouse pointer is displayed, when
hovering the mouse cursor over the program's window
Expected behaviour:
* If an operation takes very long the user should be informed and ideally given
the possibility to cancel that operation (some estimation about how long the
operation will take might be helpful in deciding whether or not to wait).
* More importantly, other programs of the same suite should not be affected
when one program stalls.
Note:
It's understandable that rendering a long text takes time, but it seems that
other programs (Calc in this case) are also affected.
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