Rob, You wrote:
>I am in the final stages of a manuscript and trying to resolve matters like >spaces after colons and punctuation. I thought I knew all the tricks, but >when I do the Search and Replace with more than 3,500 operations in one >file, FM crashes. I would not have thought FM would have limits (thought in >fact it looped until it had done everything) so I am blaming myself. Small >1 to 3499 opeartions go well. > >running XP and FM7.2 with updates. Find/Change operations may cause a crash when there are many replacements (internal error: 8004, 8442924, 4906935, 4903184). For example, in chapter 2 of the sample Ecology book provided with FrameMaker, replace a space with a space (the same operation is successful in FrameMaker 7.2). Workaround: add the following line in the [Preferences] section in maker.ini (see issue #1555297 in FrameMaker 8.0's ReadMeFirst.html) ClearHistorySpecial=On After adding this entry, the History palette will be cleared when a global Find/Change action is executed, and the global Find/Change action cannot be undone. I encountered this with FM8.0 where the workaround is to add a ClearHistorySpecial=On entry to the make.ini file, after which the History palette is cleared when a global Find/Change action is executed. I did not encounter this in FM7.2, even when the number of replacements was much higher than 3500. How about using a number of Search/Replace actions (eg use separate search/replace actions in individual chapters and avoid book-wide searches, or apply separate actions to selected areas in a file)? [ See background information by Michael Mueller-Hillebrand at http://www.adobeforums.com/webx/?13 at [email protected]/0 ] Shlomo Perets MicroType, http://www.microtype.com * ToolbarPlus Express for FrameMaker FrameMaker/Acrobat training & consulting * FrameMaker-to-Acrobat TimeSavers/Assistants
