Re: [gentoo-user] Libreoffice and pasting HTML from web pages.

[Michael]

On Monday, 2 March 2020 23:07:03 GMT Dale wrote:
> Howdy,
>
> I don't use LOo a whole lot but several months ago, I noticed a
> problem.  Sometimes I go to a electronic type website that has info on
> circuits and how something works.  Those pages usually contain text,
> pics and such.  I highlight what contains the info I want, which may
> include some things I don't, then copy it to my clipboard.  I then go to
> LOo and paste it as HTML since that's what it is.  Once pasted, I remove
> things I don't want, such as social media icons and other unwanted
> things.  I also make some images larger, make text larger and such as
> well.  When I get it right, I print it as a pdf file or save it as a LOo
> document.  That's how I did it in the past.  When I would paste the
> contents, it would include images and all and would be done in seconds,
> well under a minute for sure.
>
> When I paste the content now, it doesn't include pics.  The boxes is
> there and text for the link to the image but no image.  It also locks
> LOo up for minutes.  If I try to scroll up or down, it locks up again.
> Even with all that, it never loads the images.  I end up killing the
> process.  I think this started when the 6.3.* versions came out.  I
> would normally go back to a older version but those are no longer in the
> tree. I'm wondering if a USE flag could make it work again.  I used euse
> -i to see what each flag does but I'm not seeing anything that would
> change it.  What I think the problem could be, LOo can't reach the
> network anymore.  In the past when I pasted content, I could see
> activity on the network.  I think LOo was fetching the pics and maybe
> even some other info as well.  Thing is, I don't see why it can't now.
> Again, USE flag maybe???
>
> Here is the info for libreoffice.
>
>
> root@fireball / # emerge -av libreoffice
>
> These are the packages that would be merged, in order:
>
> Calculating dependencies... done!
> [ebuild   R   ~] app-office/libreoffice-6.3.5.2::gentoo  USE="cups dbus
> gtk java kde mariadb pdfimport -accessibility -bluetooth -branding
> -coinmp -debug -eds -firebird -googledrive -gstreamer -gtk2 -ldap -odk
> -postgres -test" LIBREOFFICE_EXTENSIONS="-nlpsolver -scripting-beanshell
> -scripting-javascript -wiki-publisher" PYTHON_SINGLE_TARGET="python3_6
> -python3_7 -python3_8" 233,805 KiB
>
> Total: 1 package (1 reinstall), Size of downloads: 233,805 KiB
>
> Would you like to merge these packages? [Yes/No] n
>
> Quitting.
>
> root@fireball / # equery list -po libreoffice
>  * Searching for libreoffice ...
> [-P-] [  ] app-office/libreoffice-6.3.4.2-r1:0
> [IP-] [  ] app-office/libreoffice-6.3.5.2:0
> [-P-] [ -] app-office/libreoffice-6.3.9999:0
> [-P-] [ -] app-office/libreoffice-9999:0
> root@fireball / #
>
>
> Anyone have a clue how to fix this?
>
> Thanks.
>
> Dale
>
> :-)  :-)

I haven't looked into how LO works, but it may have something to do with the 
tonne of JavaScript HTML pages contain these days and how this is processed/
filtered.  When I try it here it works for small amounts of text/pics, but 
unlike your LO, I do not have java installed as a dependency.

An alternative you could try is to save the page as HTML - File/Save Page As.  
Then select one of the options to save it as below, which when you open with 
LO does not take long to process.  If you select 'HTML page complete' it will 
save all JS and images in a separate folder, which you could delete 
thereafter, or repurpose as you see fit.