Re: [way OT] Migrating from non-free programs to LibreOffice

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Date	Wed, 8 Jan 2014 04:14:00 +1100
Subject	Re: [way OT] Migrating from non-free programs to LibreOffice
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On Wed, Jan 8, 2014 at 4:10 AM, Michael Torrie <torriem@gmail.com> wrote:
> LO does reference images if you would like.  But I find embedding the
> whole works is just more self-contained.  And with multiple file
> documents the chances of losing data or messing with pagination are
> contained to individual sections.

Referencing isn't sufficient to prevent the massive memory use,
though. Whatever's in the document will need to be loaded into RAM in
order to edit the file. It's a fundamental limitation of big files and
WYSIWYG editors.

ChrisA

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Re: [OT] Migrating from non-free programs to LibreOffice (was: "More About Unicode in Python 2 and 3") Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2014-01-06 11:23 +1100
  Re: [OT] Migrating from non-free programs to LibreOffice (was: "More About Unicode in Python 2 and 3") Grant Edwards <invalid@invalid.invalid> - 2014-01-06 15:53 +0000
    Re: [OT] Migrating from non-free programs to LibreOffice (was: "More About Unicode in Python 2 and 3") Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2014-01-07 03:01 +1100
    Re: [OT] Migrating from non-free programs to LibreOffice Ethan Furman <ethan@stoneleaf.us> - 2014-01-06 08:28 -0800
    Re: [OT] Migrating from non-free programs to LibreOffice Michael Torrie <torriem@gmail.com> - 2014-01-07 09:45 -0700
    Re: [OT] Migrating from non-free programs to LibreOffice Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2014-01-08 03:58 +1100
    Re: [way OT] Migrating from non-free programs to LibreOffice Michael Torrie <torriem@gmail.com> - 2014-01-07 10:10 -0700
    Re: [way OT] Migrating from non-free programs to LibreOffice Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2014-01-08 04:14 +1100
    Re: [way OT] Migrating from non-free programs to LibreOffice Michael Torrie <torriem@gmail.com> - 2014-01-07 10:45 -0700

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