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

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On 01/07/2014 10:14 AM, Chris Angelico wrote:
> 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.

I suppose.  Working with multiple-part documents mitigates this issue to
a large extent.  Granted my sections are only about 30 pages or so, and
only about 20 mb of imagery per section.

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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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