Is Libre Office really this slow?

So I have a 200KB word document opened in Libre Office on an i-7 quad core Dell M4600 and it scrolls like I am running it on a 486.

I thought maybe it was because I was trying the very latest version, so I uninstalled and installed the latest "stable" version and it does the same thing.

Is this normal? Does Libre Office have serious issues with documents with embedded pictures?

I've always found it to be "nearly" as capable, but significantly slower than MS Office - especially the spreadsheets or dealing with any type of complicated formatting or embedding in documents.

You get what you pay for.

ok, great. Used to using MS Office. Thought maybe I was missing something.

I don't have any laggy scrolling in it, you could try tools>options>libreoffice>view>use opengl for rendering?

I run Libre on an Ubuntu box with a Celeron G1840T 8 Gigs of ram and a 60 Gig SSD, scrolling is fine on a 200 page doc.

ChoGGi said:

I don't have any laggy scrolling in it, you could try tools>options>libreoffice>view>use opengl for rendering?

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And why should I have to do that? MS Office doesn't have to use any special video card acceleration to scroll.

To see if it fixes the issue?

Remember that when you're opening any form of Microsoft format (in this case, .doc/.docx), Libreoffice has to do a conversion in realtime so it can render it properly. That might be what's causing the slowdown. Try re-saving the document in Libreoffice format and see if that makes any real difference.

gamerk2 said:

Remember that when you're opening any form of Microsoft format (in this case, .doc/.docx), Libreoffice has to do a conversion in realtime so it can render it properly. That might be what's causing the slowdown. Try re-saving the document in Libreoffice format and see if that makes any real difference.

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I can try that.. so it doesn't just do a conversion when it first loads? It does a real-time conversion every time you scroll to a different page? If that is the case, then that is one of the most retarded code decisions I have ever heard of.

cyclone3d said:

I can try that.. so it doesn't just do a conversion when it first loads? It does a real-time conversion every time you scroll to a different page? If that is the case, then that is one of the most retarded code decisions I have ever heard of.

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Not really. If you're talking about a 14 page document, then sure doing the conversion before opening might be worth it, but if we're talking about a 200 page or more document then it would be foolhardy to do so as it could take forever to initially load, take up gobs of memory, etc. Which, speaking of memory, you can adjust how much memory LibreOffice will use.

Go to Tools -> Options -> Memory and adjust accordingly.

cyclone3d said:

And why should I have to do that? MS Office doesn't have to use any special video card acceleration to scroll.

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Just because something is designed differently doesn't make it worse. Also, yes MS Office DOES use GPU acceleration. You just don't have the option to turn it on or off. It just hooks into the Windows compositor and uses GPU acceleration just like any other UI element native to Windows. LibreOffice on the other hand uses VCL as their GUI toolkit which is designed for LO itself. It is a multiplatform GUI toolkit that is part of what makes LO easy to build for Windows, Mac, Linux, etc. They have to spend time supporting all of these platforms, and therefore may not hook into every OS as cleanly as a native application. That's just the cost of portability.