Re: [Trisquel-users] LibreOffice freezes when opening large .pptx files

[onpon4]

> or do the latest versions of the Office suite now include a export to PDF?

They do. They also support ODF.

But this doesn't sound to me like a problem with formats. It sounds more like  
a problem with this particular file. Maybe the file is just so large that  
it's taking a long time to open? Or maybe there's something about it that  
LibreOffice doesn't expect? Or maybe you're running out of RAM and going into  
swap? Hard to say without seeing the file.

Re: [Trisquel-users] LibreOffice freezes when opening large .pptx files

[encryptedram]

Thanks, the PowerPoint files were successfully converted into .odp files.  
Unfortunately, the freeze problem is still there, even when I open the .odp  
files. Since this issue affects more than 1 file format, I'll edit my post to  
reflect that.

Re: [Trisquel-users] LibreOffice freezes when opening large .pptx files

[g . smyli]

Maybe this would work
"Converting Many Microsoft Office Files into OpenDocument Format

The Document Converter Wizard will copy and convert all Microsoft Office  
files in a folder into LibreOffice documents in the OpenDocument file format.  
You can specify the folder to be read, and the folder where the converted  
files are to be saved.


Choose File - Wizards - Document Converter to start the wizard."

So maybe you can convert the file first to libreoffice format.

from https://help.libreoffice.org/Common/Using_Microsoft_Office_and

[Trisquel-users] LibreOffice freezes when opening large .pptx files

[encryptedram]

Hello Trisquel users,

It has been roughly 6 months since I've installed Trisquel 7.0, and it has  
been great so far. Everything has worked. However, when I tried to open a  
large .pptx file yesterday, LibreOffice froze completely. The first 3 slides  
displayed as loaded, but the rest of the slides were not loaded.  
Unfortunately, even those 3 slides couldn't be viewed since the program was  
frozen.


Thankfully, I can open other programs (e.g. Task Manager so that I can kill  
LibreOffice). I've been looking around the web for information on this  
problem, and haven't found anything more than to delete the user profile at  
$HOME/.config/libreoffice/4/user, and open LibreOffice again (which  
supposedly resets the user profile). I have done that, and the problem  
persists.


I was running LibreOffice 4.2.x, and this problem was there. I just upgraded  
to 5.2.4.2 (latest version) an hour back to see if the latest version fixed  
this problem, but it didn't. In the past, I have opened large .pptx files  
with lots of images and animations with no issues, so I don't know why this  
problem suddenly popped up. I have rebooted, and even reinstalled  
Java/LibreOffice to no avail. I have tried exporting the presentation as a  
PDF, that results in a freeze as well.


Any of you know how to fix this? I wish I didn't have to deal with PowerPoint  
files, but that is the format my teachers distribute in. I can't really  
change that. I do have a Windows machine to view these files, but that would  
be a last resort. I want to stick to free software such as LibreOffice.


Thanks for reading.