Follow up on Handling Large Books in FrameMaker

[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 problems with your book and in this case that is what  
appears to be the case.

Causes for a crash when opening the files in a book are limited. I  
would suggest you check the graphics. Are there OLE linked/embedded  
graphics? What graphics formats are you using? How many graphics are  
there per file (as related to the RAM on your computer)? Are the  
graphics all linked or embedded, or both? Are there links to other  
kinds of objects, e.g. Visio files, Word files, Excel files,...?

At which file does FM crash? Does it do this consistently? Does FM  
crash if you try opening this file on its own? Does FM crash if all  
the files are opened directly, as opposed to opening them with the  
book file?

Alan

On 5/02/2009, at 6:20 AM, Joseph wrote:

> 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  
> processes
> faster, but I didn't realize it made that much difference.  I work  
> on 300 to
> 400 page books on this network, and FrameMaker handles those books  
> fine. I
> suppose its possible that 600 page books are the limit for the  
> particular
> network that I am on.
>
> Unfortunately, due to work requirements, its no possible to work on  
> local
> copies and then copy them up at the end of the day. I did this at  
> another
> place I worked at because that company's network was so slow that you
> couldn't do anything with FrameMaker on the network, and it worked  
> great.
>

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