Apache OpenOffice (AOO) Bugzilla – Issue 36407
Office opens slow if a network printer is defined
Last modified: 2004-12-22 13:53:48 UTC
I have a new installation of OO 1.1.3. Every document open is relitively slow, even small ones (from 30 secs to a minute or 2). There is no disk activity and no CPU activity. There is some network activity. Deleting my network printer definition or disabling the network completely makes opening documents instantaneous! The only way to avoid the network access and slowness without removing the printer definition is to use 'printer settings' for each document to point to a different (local) printer and save the document again. The alternative of removing the network printer definition from the PC works but as well, which gave me the clue to what was going on, but means that I can no longer print. So the workaround with Writer is to define a local dummy printer and use printer settings to switch to the network printer only when you need to print. Note that Impress starts very slowly if there is a default network printer definition. Making the dummy local printer the default printer helps with this too. It is not a problem with MS Office where the printer is only accessed if you want to print or change the printer settings. I think that OpenOffice should do the same or you will have performance problems in any situation with network printers.
I do not know who normally care about this topic... please reassign to suitable owner. Thanks.
For this issue I found quering issuezilla with defect + Summary="default printer" helpful. The report lists issue 34140. It seems therefore that this problem is also still existent in current developer milestones. The issue i am referring to is currently assigned to "dv".
Hi allanrsmith, thanks for using and supporting OpenOffice.org... This issue is duplicate to issue 34140 *** This issue has been marked as a duplicate of 34140 ***
closing... :)