My preliminary guesswork regarding my
recent LibreOffice crashes were more correct accurate than I realised.
What's actually happening is that in areas where the picture is
larger/where strange cut/paste decisions are being made the program is
actually having difficulties processing this data. This is reflected by a
stall of several minutes (or eventual crash) in user space (workable
under Microsoft Word but not under LibreOffice/OpenOffice at the
moment). I've fiddled around with removing, changing the format, and
compression level of the pictures themselves but obviously this does not
scale well on large files (I'm not sure how long this is going to be
yet.).
There
does seem to be an option in Microsoft Word which will allow you to
compress all images in the file though (there seems to be similar work
occurring in LibreOffice/OpenOffice as well). I was able to achieve a
size reduction from 5906KB to 5023KB. A substantial saving and one which
has allowed me to re-open it (I've been standardising fonts/styles as
well) and use it in OpenOffice/LibreOffice as well. Something else which
I've realised is that where I've tracked changes I've made or the
program has made odd formatting/styling decisions which have compounded
the problem.
http://user.services.openoffice.org/en/forum/viewtopic.php?t=6918
http://user.services.openoffice.org/en/forum/viewtopic.php?t=3665
In some other work had to deal with
some browser compatibility issues (IE6). Something I came across was the
history different in support levels between PNG as opposed to other
formats in web browsers. If you've ever heard of or used ImagaMagick
then you'll realise just how useful it is.
for i in *.jpg; do temp=`echo $i | sed s/jpg/png/`; convert $i $temp; done
for i in *.jpg; do temp=`echo $i | sed s/jpg/gif/`; convert $i $temp; done
Another thing you may notice is that even when using tools that are designed to deliberately compress image files depending on the algorithm there's only so far that you can take it.
http://pmt.sourceforge.net/pngcrush/
for i in *.jpg; do temp=`echo $i | sed s/jpg/png/`; convert $i $temp; done
for i in *.jpg; do temp=`echo $i | sed s/jpg/gif/`; convert $i $temp; done
Another thing you may notice is that even when using tools that are designed to deliberately compress image files depending on the algorithm there's only so far that you can take it.
http://pmt.sourceforge.net/pngcrush/
At a certain point it just comes down to the raw dimensions of the file itself. This is particularly the case with files that use lossless compression algorithms.
for i in *.jpg; do temp=`echo $i | sed s/jpg/png/`; convert -resize 25% $i $temp; done
The following are useful utilities for dealing with PDF files. I recently needed them to append multiple PDF's to one another/convert to other formats and didn't want to use a full blown editor.
http://www.cogniview.com/convert-pdf-to-excel/post/pdf-editing-creation-50-open-sourcefree-alternatives-to-adobe-acrobat/
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- as usual thanks to all of the individuals and groups who purchase and use my goods and services
http://sites.google.com/site/dtbnguyen/
http://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com.au/
