FM8 seems to be sluggish on my PC

[Rick Quatro]

Hi Syed,

2GB of memory is not much for Vista. I would suggest at least 3GB.

Rick Quatro
Carmen Publishing Inc
585-659-8267
www.frameexpert.com

> Hmmm ... I would suggest doing some testing to see if you see what I
> just saw ... I decided to try to duplicate what I was reading here. I
> have a fast Windows laptop and tested moving around a document with the
> arrow keys with, and without, the designer boxes open.
> 
> Running FrameMaker 8, latest patch, on (recently loaded) Vista 32bit on
> a Dell Latitude 820 laptop, with a 2.16GHz Core Duo proc, 2GB of memory,
> fast 7200rpm drive.
> 
> My results *definitely* confirmed that the cursor movement with the
> arrows is MUCH faster with the designer boxes not visible. Since I have
> a fast computer, I had only seen a bit of sluggishness in the past (I
> keep the Paragraph, Character and Table designer boxes open), but did
> not bother to track it down. However, the difference is sufficiently
> dramatic that I now plan to work with the designer dialog boxes closed!
> Not my preferred mode, fwiw, so I hope Adobe improves this issue.
> 
> I attribute this sluggishness to the continuous "check and show the
> paragraph and character information" in the designer dialog boxes while
> the cursor is being moved around with the arrow keys - something needs
> to be speeded up here for sure!
> 
> Thanks for this thread, folks!
> 
> Z