StarOffice: Slide sorter slow

[Roger Oberholtzer]

Don't tell me that the images and things are IN the presentation. I did this
once with staroffice 5 and had a slow system as well. And my presentation
was only 32 MB or so. I found that if you linked to the images (by
reference) and other includes, you got much better time. That is because
only the visible images are needed at any given time. Loading the
presentation is very very much faster. When doing the actual presentation,
SO prefetches the next slide while showing the previous one. So the slides
progress at the same rate.

I seem to recall that SO also had an option to not show images. Only an
outline and name, This also makes a great speed improvement. Especially when
combined with linked images. (Maybe this last was a feature in another
program. Age...)

I wonder why the presentation is 290M when 40*3 (max size for all images) is
only 120M. There must be one hell of a description for each photo! Do you do
any image resizing in the presentation? Or are you taking the images as they
are?


On Mon, 22 Mar 2004 06:24:13 -0500
Joel Hammer <joel at hammershome.com> wrote:

> Well, with the new patch I can now load my very large
> powerpoint presentations into StarOffice, for example: 
> 
> -r-xr-xr-x    1 root     root         371M Sep 22 11:40 TumorBoard1.ppt
> -rw-r--r--    1 root     root         290M Mar 22 05:04 TumorBoard1.sxi
> 
> The loading takes several minutes. That's OK. What is
> not OK is how slow StarOffice is when manipulating these
> images. It takes forever to build the thumbnails for the
> slide sorter view, and even after you wait a LONG time
> for all the thumbnails to build, moving them around is
> still very slow. It seems as if the thumbnails are being
> regenerated each time you move the slides.
> 
> There are about 40 digital images, each about 1 to 3 megs,
> in this presentation. Powerpoint handles this much more
> quickly. I use PowerPoint on two other machines, both
> better than my linux box in terms of CPU (2 gig Pentium
> 4 and a 1 gig centrino versus a 1 Gig Duron for the linux
> box. The Linux box has plenty of memory, though, even when
> running staroffice with  this large file.)
> 
>             total       used       free     shared    buffers     cached
> Mem:        645152     592028      53124          0      11500     459800
> -/+ buffers/cache:     120728     524424
> Swap:      1309280      60776    1248504
> 
> This slowness makes StarOffice useless for making slide
> presentations.
> 
> Has anyone else noticed this?
> 
> Is there a cure?
> 
> Joel
> 
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