Topic changes heading levels

[Combs, Richard]

Judy wrote: 
 
> I recently tried breaking my doc set into topic-sized fm docs, then
> building the different outputs with the topic fm's as insets to a
> chapter container.  It worked great w/ 1 chapter, but when I tested it
> with the first 3 chapters, FM couldn't handle it.  (50% CPU usage  on
a
> 2 Ghz CPU w/ 2Gb RAM and only FM was open. Plenty of hard drive space
> too.) I may be able to compromise, in this case, and inset only those
> whose headings change though.

I've never used text insets for _all_ the content, only for some
percentage (typically, 20-40%) that was being reused. If you want to
completely chunk everything, that's probably best done by putting all
your content chunks into a database, and assembling the FM docs from
that. 

But regarding lots of text insets -- are you putting each in a separate
file? A text inset is just a named flow, and a single FM file can
contain any number of text insets (when you want to import one, you
point to the file, and then FM presents a dialog in which you can
specify which flow of that file you want). Opening one file that
contains 20 or 30 text insets presents much less of a burden than
opening 20 or 30 files. 

That said, if you're running Vista, 2 Gb RAM is marginal for this kind
of resource-intensive work. More memory would certainly help. 

Richard


Richard G. Combs
Senior Technical Writer
Polycom, Inc.
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