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Date: Wed, 8 Jan 2014 04:14:00 +1100
Subject: Re: [way OT] Migrating from non-free programs to LibreOffice
From: Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com>
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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