[Libreoffice-bugs] [Bug 48692] Importing large .doc file causes loop

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https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=48692

--- Comment #9 from mike.sykes at acm.org 2012-04-19 05:09:39 PDT ---
Using LibreOffice 3.5.2.2 
Build ID: 281b639-6baa1d3-ef66a77-d866f25-f36d45f
under WinXP SP3

As suggested, I have downloaded the RTF spec and can confirm that it opens in
~30 secs without a problem, and can be edited quite satisfactorily.
Interestingly, I see it contains quite a large table viz Appendix B: Index of
RTF Control Words, which presents no problem.

Further investigation (on a now redacted file) has revealed that the problem is
almost certainly nothing to do with converting from Word format, per se, but to
soffice's handling of very large tables.

The original Word file consists almost entirely of a table exported from MySQL,
having 11 columns x ~12,000 rows, with a page count of 300 (not that I would
ever consider printing it).

I converted to table to (tab delimited) text and saved it as .txt. 
I then:
    created smaller versions with 3000, 4000, 5000 and 6000 lines. 
    For each
        opened with soffice
        converted to table
        saved as odt 
        Converted back to text
        saved as txt
As far as 5000, the result was correct, but increasingly slow. However at 6000,
not only was everything almost very, very slow, but the odt saved file was
seriously corrupted. There were 6000 lines, but only the last 40 were
non-blank!

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