Peter Payzant wrote:
Hi, all-
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.
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.
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 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?
Regards
Peter
There is some disagreement about how and to what extent these settings
are relevant, but I was reliably informed by someone on the Discuss list
that they can impinge on performance:
Tools >Options >OOo >Memory.
FWIW (not a lot), over time, following various clues and suggestions
here and there, I have the following:
Undo (number of steps) 21 [mainly because I have been experimenting with
script - the default was an amazing 100 steps and may now be "unlimited"
=-O ]
Graphics Cache: use: 40 Mb [for your Impress
projects, you probably need a lot more]
per Object: 2 Mb [too low for you or
too high?]
remove after: 10 mins [may be too long]
Cache for inserted Objects: No 20 [a guess on my part]
You may improve performance by experimenting with those settings.
The only problems I have had performance-wise related to start-up (now
in the past) and with moderately large Writer documents which I now
rarely open (and then to convert to pdf for future use).
I have used Impress to view presentations and have noticed no problems -
mind you, they have been presentations produced by that other software.
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