Issue 80996 - DOC formatting significantly slow with multi-column document
Summary: DOC formatting significantly slow with multi-column document
Status: CONFIRMED
Alias: None
Product: Writer
Classification: Application
Component: open-import (show other issues)
Version: OOo 2.2.1 RC3
Hardware: All All
: P3 Trivial (vote)
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Reported: 2007-08-24 09:56 UTC by andreiburan
Modified: 2013-08-07 14:38 UTC (History)
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Issue Type: DEFECT
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MS Word 9.0 file, two-columns layout (actually, it's a songbook) (1.28 MB, application/msword)
2007-08-24 09:58 UTC, andreiburan 		no flags Details
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Description andreiburan 2007-08-24 09:56:33 UTC 
I've been experienced a consistent issue with importing MSWord DOC (Microsoft
Word 9.0 format) into OOo; since 1.1.x series to the latest 2.3.0 (shipped with
Ubuntu Gutsy tribe4). My "test" document has about 180 pages, two-columns
structure and contains only characters (I mean, no pictures, tricky embedded OLE
object or so). The problem is that the import is extremely slow.

I have exact time measurement for the last version (2.3.0; according to About
dialog, it's "openoffice.org-core 2.3.0src680m224-1ubuntu2, Wed Aug 8 10:57:20
GMT 2007"):

on a P4 1.5Ghz, 1G RAM computer it took 1:03:34 to open.

As I recall, the 1.1.4 took 1,5 hours to import this document, so a significant
improvement was made in the 2.2.x series but it's very slow yet apparently.

After importing, I can save document in OOo (Oasis) file format and the opening
of an .ODT takes some seconds only.

I'd like to see to open this document much faster (in 4-10 minutes if possible)
and I hope this issue can help enhancing DOC importer module. Questions are welcome.
Comment 1 andreiburan 2007-08-24 09:58:02 UTC 
Created attachment 47773 [details]
MS Word 9.0 file, two-columns layout (actually, it's a songbook)
Comment 2 kami911 2007-08-25 08:17:07 UTC 
OOo 2.2 / Ubuntu 7.04
It loads briskly, but the document didn't appear after 10 minutes. I have to
shut down whole ooo. Issue Types is DEFECT
Comment 3 michael.ruess 2007-08-28 11:17:43 UTC 
MRU->FME: please have a look, the attached Word document needs very long to be
formatted - the import process only needs a few seconds, but OOo needs almost an
hour to build the document view.