Comments on: OpenOffice Batch Export http://matthewturland.com/2009/07/08/openoffice-batch-export/ Sat, 31 Dec 2011 15:29:33 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Anonymous http://matthewturland.com/2009/07/08/openoffice-batch-export/comment-page-1/#comment-276 Anonymous Tue, 13 Oct 2009 18:43:12 +0000 Be careful - I haven't tested it lately but a few years ago I found that OpenOffice leaked memory like a sieve. I was using it from the command line to convert Word documents into postscript files, en masse (like a few hundred thousand). I was repeatedly using the same OOo Writer instance for speed - so it didn't have to unload and reload between each convert. After about 5000 pages I'd have to do a kill on OOo before continuing because it would have eaten several GB of RAM. Be careful – I haven’t tested it lately but a few years ago I found that OpenOffice leaked memory like a sieve. I was using it from the command line to convert Word documents into postscript files, en masse (like a few hundred thousand). I was repeatedly using the same OOo Writer instance for speed – so it didn’t have to unload and reload between each convert.

After about 5000 pages I’d have to do a kill on OOo before continuing because it would have eaten several GB of RAM.

]]> By: mutualbehavior http://matthewturland.com/2009/07/08/openoffice-batch-export/comment-page-1/#comment-270 mutualbehavior Fri, 17 Jul 2009 04:05:24 +0000 thanks. for da' script! thanks. for da’ script!

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