RE: Speed of Book Creation in FM 7

[larry.kollar@xxxxxxxxxx]

>  One listmember told me off-list that it takes them 20 minutes
> to open a 200 file book.

Is this just FM7, then?
I'm using FM6, and a >200 file book (a master index) opens in
a few seconds. It takes a significant amount of time to build, but
not an hour.

One thing I've noticed while building that book, using an
AppleScript, is that the first so-many files come in very
quickly. As the size of the book grows, so does the amount of
time it takes to add a file. It seems like there used to be a
way of freezing a display so a script or FDK client could do
its thing without having to wait on Frame to update the
display.

Maybe using an external Perl script to build the book (MIF)
would go faster, but that wouldn't solve the problem of long
opening times.  Sometimes, graphical interfaces just aren't
worth all the pretty colors....

--
Larry Kollar, Senior Technical Writer, ARRIS
"Content creators are the engine that drives
value in the information life cycle."
    -- Barry Schaeffer, on XML-Doc



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