Bug 129254 - when copy and pasting lots of text from a pdf writer freezes
Summary: when copy and pasting lots of text from a pdf writer freezes
Status: RESOLVED INSUFFICIENTDATA
Alias: None
Product: LibreOffice
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Writer (show other bugs)
Version:
(earliest affected)
7.0.0.0.alpha0+
Hardware: All Linux (All)
: medium normal
Assignee: Not Assigned
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Reported: 2019-12-07 06:33 UTC by Elmar
Modified: 2020-09-15 06:09 UTC (History)
3 users (show)

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hopefully helpful info (54.12 KB, image/png)
2019-12-07 06:34 UTC, Elmar
Details
more info (39.72 KB, image/png)
2019-12-07 06:35 UTC, Elmar
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and more (21.70 KB, image/png)
2019-12-07 06:35 UTC, Elmar
Details

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Description Elmar 2019-12-07 06:33:12 UTC
Description:
writer freezes after multiple pasting

Steps to Reproduce:
1. create new document
2. open pdf
3. select chunks of text (no pictures)
4. paste unformatted text
5. repeat 3-4 >10x

Actual Results:
Writer freezes
on kill and restart, opens doc's again but loses everything since last autosave

Expected Results:
should not freeze

Have been using 
Version: 6.0.7.3
Build ID: 1:6.0.7-0ubuntu0.18.04.10
as alternative, and no freeze after 13pages of copying


Reproducible: Always


User Profile Reset: No



Additional Info:
[Information automatically included from LibreOffice]
Locale: en-GB
Module: TextDocument
[Information guessed from browser]
OS: Linux (All)
OS is 64bit: yes
Version: 6.5.0.0.alpha0+
Build ID: 508dce40f8fda55767b9f78251725e225db2bd2f
CPU threads: 4; OS: Linux 4.15; UI render: default; VCL: gtk3; 
TinderBox: Linux-rpm_deb-x86_64@86-TDF, Branch:master, Time: 2019-11-26_21:16:48
Locale: en-GB (en_ZA.UTF-8); UI-Language: en-GB
Comment 1 Elmar 2019-12-07 06:34:54 UTC
Created attachment 156383 [details]
hopefully helpful info
Comment 2 Elmar 2019-12-07 06:35:24 UTC
Created attachment 156384 [details]
more info
Comment 3 Elmar 2019-12-07 06:35:45 UTC
Created attachment 156385 [details]
and more
Comment 4 Roman Kuznetsov 2019-12-08 12:38:12 UTC
Elmar do you want copy anything from PDF to your Writer document? I just didn't understand your target and methods...
Comment 5 Elmar 2019-12-10 04:46:00 UTC
@Roman
I have a large PDF and needed to copy many parts into a new document, resulting in many copies and pastes.

After a number of instances of such select, copy, paste Writer froze (the period was less than 10mins- the interval between autosaves). Left it for a while but Writer did not unfreeeze, so had to cancel.

After a second attempt, I opened up my document in v6.0 (the Repository version) and completed the exercise without incident - the copying and pasting from PDF to Writer took me more than an hour complete (large document).

Hope that helps.
Comment 6 BogdanB 2019-12-13 18:21:17 UTC
I can NOT confirm.

Everything working very fast. Pasting 40 pages in 30 seconds.
Comment 7 BogdanB 2019-12-13 18:21:28 UTC
I can NOT confirm.

Everything working very fast. Pasting 40 pages in 30 seconds.

Version: 6.5.0.0.alpha0+
Build ID: 693bdcc3a8c4e849c306b0187a5bf8ffe4ddb824
CPU threads: 4; OS: Linux 4.15; UI render: default; VCL: gtk3; 
TinderBox: Linux-rpm_deb-x86_64@86-TDF, Branch:master, Time: 2019-12-12_16:14:25
Locale: ro-RO (ro_RO.UTF-8); UI-Language: en-US
Calc: threaded
Comment 8 Stanislaus J. Pinasthika 2020-01-06 13:14:01 UTC
Thanks for the report. I can't reproduce it; copying the 35 pages in single blink. No problem when copying it until 1237 pages. 
Version: 6.5.0.0.alpha0+
Build ID: 5030be4e85179147476b1e441eb618fb6ed58235
CPU threads: 8; OS: Linux 5.0; UI render: default; VCL: kf5; 
TinderBox: Linux-rpm_deb-x86_64@86-TDF, Branch:master, Time: 2019-11-28_20:14:48
Locale: id-ID (id_ID.UTF-8); UI-Language: en-US
Calc: threaded
Comment 9 Gérard DUBOIS 2020-01-09 18:25:44 UTC
From 2 crossed documents (example ; 1rst from page 0 to 64 and second from page 32 to 96 thinking for a save form of a great book), it's not easy to copy phe pages 40 to 41 from the one to the other because of freeze action of the application .... May be lost 10 minutes or more time to have a paste action not very perfect !
Comment 10 Dieter 2020-03-13 17:56:20 UTC
Elamr, is it possible to add a PDF-file and give informations abou the amount of text, somebody should copy to reproduce the bug. Perhaps this could help us. Thanks

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Comment 11 QA Administrators 2020-09-10 03:57:19 UTC Comment hidden (obsolete)
Comment 12 Elmar 2020-09-15 04:41:20 UTC
I suspect that this had to do with the fact that documents originally created in MS Word can sometimes include hundreds of styles and, frankly, be a complete mess.
I have learnt to work around this.

I think you should just close this as resolved or worksforme (I don't see that option)
Comment 13 Dieter 2020-09-15 06:09:07 UTC
(In reply to Elmar from comment #12)
> I think you should just close this as resolved or worksforme (I don't see
> that option)

Elamr, you find that option in the status menu. WORKSFORME means, that there was problem but it has gone (I don't think that this is the case here)

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