Hi Peter
I have just installed OOo v2.0.4 on a Windows XP box. I have created a
two-slide presentation in Impress, and already I'm in trouble. It's
impossibly slow.
I just confirmed your results using OOo 2.0.4 on Linux. While slow,
though, I disagree that it is "impossibly slow".
My first slide has a sequence of about ten images which successively
appear,
using "custom animations". Each image is about a megabyte in size. The
second slide is just a background.
The presentation file is now about 66 Mb. It takes about 20 seconds to
open
or save.
I get very similar results. (My photos are 1.5 MB each, and my impress
file 55 MB in size.) And I'm not surprised that a 66 MB file might take a
while to save or load.
The main problem is that Impress is now very slow to respond to mouse
clicks - perhaps a few seconds with an hour-glass before I see any
response.
Clearly, it's not going to work for me the way things are now.
I confirm this too. You're running out of memory somewhere.
I could make my images smaller before I insert them, but that's going to
be
a lot of work. Is there anything else that might allow Impress to work
at a
useful speed?
I resized my photos in much less than the 20 seconds you are complaining
about. (I resized them to 1024 by 768 - the resolution of most people's
monitors.) The results are very worthwhile. Impress is now very
responsive, and the file size is down to 6 MB.
I really feel you are wasting your resources by not resizing the photos.
You are using photos around 20 times larger than they need to be.
There are a lot of free Windows programs that can resize photos easily.
For example, Picasa (www.picasa.com), XNView (www.xnview.com) and
Irfanview (www.irfanview.com).
Please let us know if you have further questions.
Adrian
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