--- Kerwin Khu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 6/8/07, Stephan M. February <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hello > > > > I've gotten quite fed-up with OpenOffice at this point. My problem: I get > spreadsheets with pricelists from my suppliers in MS Excel format. Opening > these in OpenOffice can easily grind on for five minutes, and end up > consuming well over 200Mb of RAM. A test to try and save this .xls as an .ods > to "clean it up", resulted in 100% CPU utilisation and 800Mb of RAM being > eaten before I xkilled the process. > > > > I'm now using Gnumeric, which is *so* unbelievably snappy compared to > OpenOffice. Anyone faced this same problem ? > > > > Cheers > > Stephan > > > > I've had the same problem when reading in .xls files with lots of > plots (charts). On opening the file, OO will just show a status bar > saying "calculating" for a few minutes before finally displaying the > file. Even then the charts are still rendered incorrectly. Haven't > tried this using Gnumeric (at work, am using both OO and MS office > under Windows) > > In fairness, I doubt this happens if using ODF or native format. Will > have to give this a try some time. > > In general, I find that OO Writer's compatibility with .doc is far > better than Calc's compatibility with .xls. > > my $.02, > Kerwin > > _______________________________________________ > Slugnet mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.lugs.org.sg/mailman/listinfo/slugnet >
Well I don't really have very big spreadsheets to deal with so I can't give any valid comments. But I know that OOo 2.2 on feisty starts up pretty fast with 480MB ram, after I disable the JRE env. Within 5s i think. Give that a try. As for charts ( or plots) in Calc. I do agree that the current implementation is pretty bad. But I am aware that there is work being done to create a new chart module and this should make it in time for OOo 2.3 release in Sep. Nt sure how compatible it will be with Excel though. In the meantime, if anyone wishes to try the chart module, check out http://devadventure.blogspot.com/2007/05/new-chart-integrated-into-milestone-213.html But to be fair, I honestly think that OOo has come a very long way since the early days of ver 1.0. Cheers, Lu Feng ____________________________________________________________________________________ Luggage? GPS? Comic books? Check out fitting gifts for grads at Yahoo! Search http://search.yahoo.com/search?fr=oni_on_mail&p=graduation+gifts&cs=bz _______________________________________________ Slugnet mailing list [email protected] http://www.lugs.org.sg/mailman/listinfo/slugnet
