Computing Power, Conditional Text and FM9

[Alison Craig]

FM 9 Version: 9.0p255
Unstructured
OS: XP Pro with SP3
FM Experience: 16 months
Well-used "Extras": Acrobat Pro 7.1.0, Illustrator 12.0.1 (Creative Suite 2), Corel Paint Shop Pro 12.01, MS Visio 2007 SP2


I've had some issues lately with Conditional Text misbehaving, ie, not appearing and disappearing when and as I tell it to. Usually, if I reboot and don't open any of my well-used "extras", everything behaves reasonably well - at least for a while.

Note that I have a lot of Conditional Text as the Chapters (10) and Appendices (7) of my User Manual book constitute 5 different products (soon to be 6).

As for the improperly displaying Conditional Text, these are the types of things I experience:
- certain conditions don't completely "Hide" when told to
- a condition left at "Show" actually hides *some* of it's text
- when set to "Show" with "Condition Indicators" off, some of the text remains coloured.


On paper, my system is significantly better than Adobe's FM9 requirements, however, in January my system will be 5 years old - so the system specs are a little misleading.

Anyone have any ideas (either confirming my suspicions about system age/quality or about something else altogether)?

Alison


ADOBE REQUIREMENTS
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- 1.0GHz or faster processor
- Microsoft(r) Windows(r) XP with Service Pack 2 (Service Pack 3 recommended), Windows Vista(r) with Service Pack 1 or Windows(r) 7
- 512MB of RAM (1GB recommended)
- 1.1GB of available hard-disk space
- DVD-ROM drive
- 1,024x768 screen resolution

MY (5-year old) SYSTEM
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- Pentium 4 3GHz CPU
- XP Pro with SP3
- 2 Gb RAM
- 5 - 20 Gb available hard-disk space at any given time
- DVD-ROM drive
- 23" wide screen with a resolution of 1920 x 1080


Alison Craig, Technical Writer
Ultrasonix Medical Corporation
Tel: (604) 279-8550, ext 127
E-mail: alison.craig at ultrasonix.com<mailto:alison.craig at ultrasonix.com>