StarOffice too SLOW with presentations

[Bill Campbell]

On Tue, Mar 23, 2004, Net Llama! wrote:
>On Mon, 22 Mar 2004, Joel Hammer wrote:
>> Well, I tried hard, but StarOffice just can't handle my big
>> powerpoint presentations which have three dozen 1 meg or
>> more digital images. I increased the memory to 256 megs,
>> and about 2 megs per inserted object, and allowed 50
>> objects. The cache memory can't be made bigger than 256
>> megs. Maybe SO is supposed to not be a resource hog on a
>> multiuser system. This may be a mistake. Nothing helped. It
>> was so slow in the slide view mode it was unusable. It
>> took many minutes to paint one page of slides. Not only
>> was it slow but it didn't seem to cache anything, so
>> every movement of slides took a LONG time to redraw the
>> screen. This is running on a one gig Duron chip with 630
>> megs of memory. Powerpoint has no trouble with these files
>> with a gig centrino chip (equivalent to a 2 gig Pentium)
>> with a lot less memory.
>>
>> If someone knows how to tweak SO so it can handle this
>> sort of situation, I'd like to hear about it.
>
>OpenOffice has no such limitation, plus its free.

Do your presentations with HTML in any browser, and you don't need to worry
about things like this.  You probably end up with better presentations
since you won't be tempted to use all the eye candy.

Bill
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