Hello Fellow Framers! After spending quite a bit of time reading posts in the FrameUsers archives, I thought I had some things figured out. It worked on a small scale, but now that I've begun using larger documents I'm running into a problem and I hope you folks can help.
I've been working toward making my unstructured FM 8 doc. set more modular to improve my single-sourcing capabilities. I read several posts concerning text insets in container documents and that sounded like the perfect solution. After a few tests on a very small scale, I moved forward to breaking down and reassembling the first 3 chapters of our user manual. Ch.1: 63 pgs, 61 insets Ch.2: 224 pgs, 168 insets Ch 3: 83 pgs, 71 insets Each chapter (individually) worked fine, so with that much done, I decided to build a test book and work out the issues around cross-references and hypertext before I continued on to the remaining 6 chapters. My problem is that, with all of the fm files and books open at once, my computer slowed *way* down! I built a book with the 3 container documents and added a TOC, but had trouble scrolling through the TOC. Nothing "crashed", but it was so slow it's clear that I'm headed for trouble. I checked the performance in the Windows Task Manager and, with _only FM8_ open, the CPU Usage was around 50% (give or take about 7%). My Computer: - Intel Core 2 Duo CPU - 2 GHz Motherboard - 2 GHz, 3.5 Gb RAM - OS: XP SP3 I'm wondering if I've broken the files down too far and FM can't handle that, or if there's something else I don't know about. I've read, numerous times, about the power of FM and that people use it to handle much larger documents than mine. I have to believe that there's an answer somewhere. Can you FM gurus please help me? Thanks so much! Judy _______________________________________________ You are currently subscribed to Framers as arch...@mail-archive.com. Send list messages to fram...@lists.frameusers.com. To unsubscribe send a blank email to framers-unsubscr...@lists.frameusers.com or visit http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/archive%40mail-archive.com Send administrative questions to listad...@frameusers.com. Visit http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info.