Bug 162749 - Failure to Initially Open and Laggy Navigation With Bulky Word Files
Summary: Failure to Initially Open and Laggy Navigation With Bulky Word Files
Status: NEEDINFO
Alias: None
Product: LibreOffice
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Writer (show other bugs)
Version:
(earliest affected)
24.8.0.3 release
Hardware: All All
: medium normal
Assignee: Not Assigned
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Reported: 2024-09-02 14:23 UTC by elijahllopezz@gmail.com
Modified: 2024-10-29 16:08 UTC (History)
2 users (show)

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Attachments
File in Question (1.61 MB, application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.wordprocessingml.document)
2024-09-02 14:24 UTC, elijahllopezz@gmail.com
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Description elijahllopezz@gmail.com 2024-09-02 14:23:41 UTC
Description:
One of my side projects is creating a Canadian corporate tax return software. To do so, I need to read as spec document that is 700+ pages in length. To date, there's only two softwares that can handle this properly. The first is microsoft office, since this is a docx file, and Apple Pages, since Apple is keen on interoperability. However, Apple Pages is macOS only, and I prefer Windows and KDE to macOS.

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Download https://1drv.ms/w/c/760c84686d150d74/EXQNFW1ohAwggHZdJAQAAAAB8hIHkexR92DKInrp3KakKg?e=XUUbJz
2. Open file above in LibreOffice
3. Try using the navigation UI to skip to header such as Schedule 572 (the schedule I was working on)

Actual Results:
On first attempt, the software crashed. On second attempt, due to safe mode, the file could be opened. However, it was impossible to use the navigation pane to go to the desired heading.

Expected Results:
Writer should not have this much lag. There is some lag in Word, but only when scrolling. The navigation pane is lag free in Word, however in Writer, it's extremely laggy and didn't even show the headings if I recall correctly.


Reproducible: Always


User Profile Reset: No

Additional Info:
This is a major issue. I'm willing to pay money just to ensure that open source software such as Writer can handle this case very fluently. I also am willing to pay so that the dark theme is more polished similar to Word and Only Offices dark theme. For your information, I have reported a similar issue to Only Office regarding the same document. In the case of Only Office however, the memory usage was ridiculously high (700MB more than Microsoft Office), which made me prefer Microsoft 365, which I still don't have to pay for due to having a University account.

Specs of my laptop are: Ryzen 9 6900 HX (2022), 16GB Memory, RTX 3080-Ti, ~100GB free storage, Windows 11. Laptop is about 14 months old.
Comment 1 elijahllopezz@gmail.com 2024-09-02 14:24:53 UTC
Created attachment 196185 [details]
File in Question

This is the file that I need to traverse perfectly.
Comment 2 m_a_riosv 2024-09-02 20:26:28 UTC
Works for me with
Version: 24.8.1.1 (X86_64) / LibreOffice Community
Build ID: ef51c4a0cd35185debf25ad9d0db6a1c14bed5a0
CPU threads: 16; OS: Windows 11 X86_64 (10.0 build 22631); UI render: Skia/Raster; VCL: win
Locale: es-ES (es_ES); UI: en-US
Calc: CL threaded

Although, I think it is a little mess about bookmarks duplicating headings.
Comment 3 Buovjaga 2024-10-29 16:08:41 UTC
Works fine for me as well.

Elijah: Please copy and paste here the content of your Help - About (LibreOffice - About on macOS) by clicking the copy button. This allows us to know more about your system.

Set to NEEDINFO.
Change back to UNCONFIRMED after you have provided the information.

Arch Linux 64-bit
Version: 25.2.0.0.alpha0+ (X86_64) / LibreOffice Community
Build ID: 7b91fc00a01e973937861a212750b12ffaaf9501
CPU threads: 8; OS: Linux 6.10; UI render: default; VCL: kf6 (cairo+wayland)
Locale: fi-FI (fi_FI.UTF-8); UI: en-US
Calc: CL threaded
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