Given all of the platforms I have to use in my geekly work, I tend to find a never ending list of bugs. True, most of the “support” people always want a production writer to “upgrade to the latest version” before they will provide even one nano-second of help. I recently went through this with Libre Office support/bug reporting system. People who engage in hacking on the fly (AGILE) always think you should be using the latest nightly build. People who are writing a 600 page book that is about ready to go out for editing don’t want a 12 year old boy kicking two legs of the three legged stool out from under them. Every time you go to the “latest build” there is a cascade of new bugs directly impacting you because that’s just how software is released today.
Hey, Microsoft started it! Windows 7 was sold as a new version when it was a Windows Vista bug fix. Oh yeah, Windows ME had its bug fixes sold as a new version too.
If you are lucky enough to have a document which is only text (who has that these days?) you can avoid releasing said text when providing a file showing the bug if you visit the Lorem Ipsum Generator. Most of us are either working on a book or being paid to write proprietary works so we cannot, under any circumstances, release the content as part of a bug report. (People who don’t write for a living simply cannot understand this.) Usually we have proprietary/copyrighted images in our documents as well and those can never be released without lots of client sign-offs.
I don’t know if it has limits. I keyed in 900 paragraphs and it seemed to generate an awful lot of text.
Now word processor developers can begin to debug their horrible memory leaks/handling by using the output of this page to generate text documents. If you do just a bit of digging you can also find this site which has links to many useful generators. One of the better links on it is lorempixel. You choose a size and category and it “generates” an image for you.
Right now it seems like the only thing missing is some little geek hooking up Lorem Ipsum with lorempixel so a word processing developer could enter:
- Page size
- Number of pages
- Output File Format
- Number of images per page
Then hit generate and have it generate your 5000 page image laden memory handling test case. In fact, you would probably want to generate a 100 page file followed by several 1000 page files so you could test inserting a large file into a small file and all the dynamic memory handling.
