Little off topic, but with these constraints it seems that the longest
OOo writer document would be around 852,000 pages long ( 65536
characters = 13 pages * 65536 paragraphs - with a little rounding)...
Well there goes my idea of having a million page novel..... ;-)
Paul
On 4/22/05, Rod Engelsman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Robert S. Wall wrote:
> > Hey guys! I've been using OpenOffice for quite a while, and I
> > recently upgraded to the 2.0 Beta. I have a very bizarre
> > problem.....
> >
> > I create a text document. I go to cut-n-paste in text-only content
> > from a web page (about 20 pages worth....I know it's a lot, but bear
> > with me :) ), and it only pastes in about the first 14 pages. It
> > cuts it off in mid-sentence.
> >
> > Now.....to test the problem....I opened a *new* document, and just
> > typed in a row of x's ("xxxxxxxx", etc.), and copy/pasted that for
> > quite a long time. Somewhere on page 14 or so, it won't let me type
> > any more characters in. I mean, no more typing, no more pasting, no
> > more characters in any way, shape, or form. I can still work with
> > what I have, but can't add any more.
> >
> > As another test, I copy/pasted the same text into WordPad, and saved
> > it as an RTF file. Wordpad accepted all the text, wrote the RTF, and
> > it was all there when I re-opened it in Wordpad. Try opening it in
> > OpenOffice, it cuts it off somewhere around page 14 in mid-sentence.
> >
> > I'm really hoping there's some setting somewhere that I missed, but
> > I'm completely stumped. It doesn't make any sense....anybody got any
> > ideas?
> >
>
> Writer has a limit of 65,536 characters per paragraph. Normally you
> would never come close to that limit. BTW, it also has a limit of 65,536
> paragraphs, which I've seen someone run into before. (It was a long word
> list -- word, <ENTER>, word, <ENTER>, etc.)
>
> Apparently that web page you were trying to copy was (or at least was
> interpreted as) one continuous paragraph.(It would take around 1500
> pages or so to reach the # of paragraphs limit.)
>
> Rod
>
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