On Apr 10, 2007, at 4:28 PM, Robert Neumann 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
There seem to be two issues you're describing. One is the "hang" when
opening a large document. Since that occurred only once (as you
describe it), it's hard to know what the cause is. (I regularly open
a 240-page document [without any figures] on my macbook, and it takes
2 seconds.) Part of the issue may stem from your having LyX display
the graphics; doing this requires that LyX convert the graphics one-
by-one to a format it is able to display, and this may take a while.
The other issue -- taking a long time view a pdf of your document --
is not an issue with LyX but rather with LaTeX: LyX hands off
typesetting tasks to LaTeX, which then runs in the background. My 240-
page document takes about 23 seconds to typeset (and that's with
bibliography and index). Documents with graphics will naturally take
longer, as the graphics may need to be converted into a proper format
to produce the pdf. From what I can tell, typesetting in LaTeX on Mac
is generally speedy.
There are some issues with speed on Mac, but these have to do with
screen redraws when typing or navigating. Most of these have been
overcome, and you shouldn't notice them with a macbook. (I do notice
them on a 466 MHz iBook, but even then I wouldn't say it's a real
problem.)
Bennett
