On Tuesday 27 Jan 2015 19:41:50 Mark Bourne wrote: > ianseeks wrote: > > On Monday 26 Jan 2015 19:18:24 Tim Lloyd wrote: > >> Hi Ian, > >> > >> I am assuming this is an existing document. Not new? Any document in > >> particular or any? > > > > An exisitng ODT, nothing complicated in the file, just text > > > >> Is the CTRL-C the first thing you do? > > > > Highlight with mouse then Ctrl-c, the > > > >> How big is the text you highlight? > > > > 2 pages > > > >> No problems in previous versions I assume! > > > > with one of the 4.3 releases that was just before the 4.4 release but i > > didn;t take note of the version. > > > >> Any other info would be useful to track this down. I had a go on > >> Fedora/Cinnamon but I can't break it. > > > > it doesn;t happen every time so unfortunately i can't reproduce at will. > > under the 4.3 version i was actually copying text from a browser to paste > > into the exisitng Writer document. But on 4.4 i was copying the text > > from ODT and the creating a new ODT document to paste into, it created > > the new empty text document but that was as far as it got before it died > > I don't know if it's related, but there was previously an issue where > pasting content including images from a web page sometimes froze > LibreOffice while it downloaded the images. If the images were large, or > you're on a slow connection, it could take a while and appear completely > unresponsive. That was discussed on bug 60415 > <https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=60415>, and seemed > to be fixed in 4.3.0.4. Always possible that it's regressed though. It was all text but when copying from teh webpage it may have included some thing i didn;t see. But the latest times were from Writer to Writer with no images > If the pasted images are linked to the original content (so that they > automatically update), it might also connect back to the original web > site when copying that content from one document to another. Perhaps > check Edit > Links on the source document and try breaking any links > listed there before copying (unless, of course, you want the images to > remain linked so that they automatically update in your document when > they change online). > > If this is the problem, and you want to avoid the delays when pasting > content from a web page, you can use Edit > Paste Special > Unformatted > Text to get the text, then individually copy any images you want and use > Edit > Paste Special > Bitmap (or anything other than one of the HTML or > Unformatted Text options). The text and images won't be formatted as > they were on the original web page, but that's not always a bad thing as > you'll be starting from a relatively clean state to format as you like.
I'll give that a try if it happens again Thanks > >> Cheers > > > > I think i'll just have to keep my eye on it and see if it happens again > > > > THanks for your reply -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
