Bug 86369

Hello,

can you try again with version 4.3.4?

It is also a best practice to save in LibreOffice’s native file format, ODF, while working on documents, and only exporting to other formats such as DOC for the final version.

(In reply to Dan from comment #0)
> I
> then reduced the over all size of the document actually by half, making two
> documents out of this one document.  So now each document was bout 46 pages
> in length.  When I saved the smaller documents I did not loose the pictures
> when I reopened the document. It appears that there is a limit to the size
> of the document one can make?

Very interesting. How big are these documents? Could you please attach the large 96 page and smaller ~46 page documents to this bug report?
(If they're larger than the upload limit will allow, we'll try something else)

(Please change the status back to UNCONFIRMED after the documents are attached and you've tested w/4.3.4 as per Adolfo's suggestion)


Status -> NEEDINFO

Hi Dan,
Please keep all non-private discussion on the bug report.

On Fri, Nov 21, 2014 at 11:56 PM, Dan wrote:
> Just one of the files is bigger than 25 megs so I can't send the files.

Indeed -- those are definitely too big to store in Bugzilla with our current filesize limits.

> I
> did upgrade the Libreoffice to the newer version  and it still had
> errors..........

So I wonder what the limiting factors are re: large files.

I create a few large files, and here are my results
(TESTING with LO 4.4.0.0.beta1 + Ubuntu 14.04 + Core2Duo @2.4GHz/4GB RAM)

large-file_376-pages_moby.dick-melville_578K_LO.4.4.0.0.beta1.odt:
- Takes several minutes to load, but does not crash

large-file_100ish-pages_8.large.images_moby.dick-melville_LO.4.4.0.0.beta1.odt
- 108 pages
- Several large images (2-9MB each) from http://publicdomainarchive.com/public-domain-images/
- 40.5MB file
- Opens in ~30s

Questions:
- If you reduce the filesize of the images, do you still run into a problem if the document is 90 pages long?
- How many images are you adding to the document?
- Do you run into a problem when the filesize gets larger than 25MB?

Created attachment 109873 [details]
Large ODT with over 300 pages

Created attachment 109874 [details]
ODT with over 100 pages

Created attachment 109876 [details]
Large ODT with over 1400 pages

Created attachment 109877 [details]
Large ODT with over 2000 pages

Created attachment 109878 [details]
Large ODT with over 2300 pages

Created attachment 109880 [details]
Large DOCX with over 1400 pages (basically same content as 1400 ODT)

Hi Dan,
I just attached some additional test files to this report just to test the behavior of LibreOffice. They're much bigger than the 90-page documents you were talking about, so feel free to ignore them :-)

NOTE: The 1400+ page docs are highly likely to cause LibreOffice (and possibly your machine) to freeze, so make sure everything else is saved and/or closed on your computer before you even attempt to open them :-)

(In reply to Dan from comment #0)
> ...When I saved the smaller documents I did not loose the pictures
> when I reopened the document. It appears that there is a limit to the size
> of the document one can make?

Dan: Please open LibreOffice and take a look at Tools -> Options -> LibreOffice -> Memory

If you're working on large files, I'd suggest that you bump up the Graphics cache from 20MB to something bigger -- perhaps 100MB?  If your images are very large individually, then I'd suggest you try bumping up the memory per object as well.