----- Original Message -----
From: "Bob Lounsbury" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Robert Neumann" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "LyX" <[email protected]>
Sent: Tuesday, April 10, 2007 10:43 PM
Subject: Re: Lyx 144 on Intel Mac: problems with large documents
On 4/10/07 2:28 PM, "Robert Neumann" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Hello,
I just installed lyx 144 sucessfully on a macbook core duo. Opening and
working on a document with 40 pages was no problem (well scrolling up
and down was a bit sluggish...)
But when I opened a document with 290 pages and about 80 figures lyx
hangs itself at the first attempt. At the second it opened the document
but when I tried the pdf-preview I had to close Lyx after waiting for 3
minutes with the fan running like a hair blower.
Is this a known issue for the mac? I know that lyx is much slower on
windows than on linux but I thought with OS X beeing close to linux it
would be as fast as with linux...
regards
robert
I have LyX 1.4.4 on a 600Mhz iBook and I can open and view a pdf of a 25
page document with 11 figures in roughly 30 seconds.
On windows on an athlon64 2800+ here creating a pdf from a 91 page document
with 20 figures (of which most contain subfigures) in about 40 seconds
(pdflatex, ps or dvi is longer). So with that many figures and pages, at
least on windows three minutes sounds like a correct number.
Pieter
