StarOffice: Slide sorter slow

[Joel Hammer]

On Wed, Mar 24, 2004 at 08:46:02AM +0100, Roger Oberholtzer wrote:
> 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.


OK. More action.

I prepared a powerpoint presentation with my macros,
but edited them to link to the images in the directory,
not include them into the powerpoint file. This worked
fine in powerpoint. The powerpoint file size now is tiny.

I then transferred the whole thang, images and powerpoint
file, to my linux box. Everything worked just like before
StarOffice was WAY too slow on my 1 Gig duron to be
usable. Not even close.

So, I must conclude that StarOffice badly needs some
optimization. I noticed this incredible slowness before
when I made a bar graph containing several hundred data
points. I had to use GNUplot finally to do it.

Joel