Follow up on Handling Large Books in FrameMaker

2009-02-05 Thread Fred Ridder
Joe wrote: > I wanted to clarify one aspect of this discussion. > Is the Open All Files in Book command causing FrameMaker > to freeze and crash an unrelated issue with the LAN and > indicative of some other problem (e.g. file corruption), or > are you saying that because the LAN is causing

Follow up on Handling Large Books in FrameMaker

2009-02-05 Thread Joseph
Hi Fred, I wanted to clarify one aspect of this discussion. Is the Open All Files in Book command causing FrameMaker to freeze and crash an unrelated issue with the LAN and indicative of some other problem (e.g. file corruption), or are you saying that because the LAN is causing Frame to crash whe

RE: Follow up on Handling Large Books in FrameMaker

2009-02-05 Thread Fred Ridder
Joe wrote: > I wanted to clarify one aspect of this discussion. > Is the Open All Files in Book command causing FrameMaker > to freeze and crash an unrelated issue with the LAN and > indicative of some other problem (e.g. file corruption), or > are you saying that because the LAN is causin

Re: Follow up on Handling Large Books in FrameMaker

2009-02-05 Thread Joseph
Hi Fred, I wanted to clarify one aspect of this discussion. Is the Open All Files in Book command causing FrameMaker to freeze and crash an unrelated issue with the LAN and indicative of some other problem (e.g. file corruption), or are you saying that because the LAN is causing Frame to crash whe

Follow up on Handling Large Books in FrameMaker

2009-02-05 Thread Alan Litchfield
As suggested by others in the other thread, 650 pages is not that large and LANs do not limit their capacity by the number of pages in book but by the volume of packets that are flowing at any particular time. But as it is, it is very unlikely that FM would time out unless there are other p

Follow up on Handling Large Books in FrameMaker

2009-02-04 Thread Fred Ridder
Joe wrote: > Based on what you and others have said, it certainly sounds like the LAN is > the culprit, not FrameMaker. Yes. And the workaround that several of us have suggested (opening all the component files before doing book-level operations) is still valid, That approach will eliminate the

Follow up on Handling Large Books in FrameMaker

2009-02-04 Thread Joseph
Hi Alan, As I mentioned before, there is nothing but text and graphics imported by reference, which include PNGs, TIFFs, WMF, and JPG. In addition, there are almost no graphics in this particular document. There's no specific file that the book hits at which point it crashes. Opening individual

RE: Follow up on Handling Large Books in FrameMaker

2009-02-04 Thread Fred Ridder
Joe wrote: > Based on what you and others have said, it certainly sounds like the LAN is > the culprit, not FrameMaker. Yes. And the workaround that several of us have suggested (opening all the component files before doing book-level operations) is still valid, That approach will eliminate th

Re: Follow up on Handling Large Books in FrameMaker

2009-02-04 Thread Joseph
Hi Alan, As I mentioned before, there is nothing but text and graphics imported by reference, which include PNGs, TIFFs, WMF, and JPG. In addition, there are almost no graphics in this particular document. There's no specific file that the book hits at which point it crashes. Opening individual

Follow up on Handling Large Books in FrameMaker

2009-02-04 Thread Kelly McDaniel
-boun...@lists.frameusers.com [mailto:framers-bounces at lists.frameusers.com] On Behalf Of Joseph Sent: Wednesday, February 04, 2009 11:21 AM To: framers at lists.frameusers.com Subject: Follow up on Handling Large Books in FrameMaker Hi all, As suggested by several of you, I tried opening all the files at

Follow up on Handling Large Books in FrameMaker

2009-02-04 Thread Joseph
Hi all, As suggested by several of you, I tried opening all the files at once. This caused FrameMaker to have a seizure, freeze, and crashed. Then, I tried copying the frame files and book to my desktop and it worked fine. I had always known that working locally with framemaker means everything p

Re: Follow up on Handling Large Books in FrameMaker

2009-02-04 Thread Alan Litchfield
As suggested by others in the other thread, 650 pages is not that large and LANs do not limit their capacity by the number of pages in book but by the volume of packets that are flowing at any particular time. But as it is, it is very unlikely that FM would time out unless there are other p

RE: Follow up on Handling Large Books in FrameMaker

2009-02-04 Thread Kelly McDaniel
-boun...@lists.frameusers.com [mailto:framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com] On Behalf Of Joseph Sent: Wednesday, February 04, 2009 11:21 AM To: framers@lists.frameusers.com Subject: Follow up on Handling Large Books in FrameMaker Hi all, As suggested by several of you, I tried opening all the files at once.

Follow up on Handling Large Books in FrameMaker

2009-02-04 Thread Joseph
Hi all, As suggested by several of you, I tried opening all the files at once. This caused FrameMaker to have a seizure, freeze, and crashed. Then, I tried copying the frame files and book to my desktop and it worked fine. I had always known that working locally with framemaker means everything p