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

[Michael Torrie]

On 01/07/2014 10:14 AM, Chris Angelico wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 8, 2014 at 4:10 AM, Michael Torrie <torriem at 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.