[Framers] 114pp table

[Ed Nodland]

Up until last year we produced several publications that contained tables
of 4000 rows. The source data is all in XML format and the tables were
plain html tags with a few FM specific attributes added in.  We use FM to
apply the master pages and styles to produce the PDFs for traditional
printing. It handles tables nicely.

Ed Nodland
San Diego Data Services

On Thu, Aug 18, 2016 at 6:57 AM, Stamm, David <David.Stamm at gd-ms.com> wrote:

> 2016-08-18-04T13:55Z
>
> John -
>
> Glad to hear that you're enjoying one of the hallmarks of FrameMaker.  In
> the "for whatever it's worth" category (ITFWIWC, "IHT-fwik" for those of
> you who are "into" acronyms, I made that one up) . . .
>
> In 2004-10, I used unstructured FrameMaker and produced a software version
> description that contained a table of 13 390 rows on 484 pages of size A4
> paper.
>
> Once I sorted out the content, which was plain-text, to go into the table,
> I copied the content and pasted it into FrameMaker.  As I recall, it took
> FrameMaker about 20 minutes to take in all of that and put it into a
> table.  After that, it took me fewer than five minutes to make to some
> relatively-minor adjustments to the table.
>
> And as you indicated, FrameMaker didn't even "breathe hard," let alone
> "break a sweat" or crash.
>
> FrameMaker showed another of its hallmarks when it correctly handled the
> numbering of all those rows and the various instances of special numbering
> elsewhere in the work product.  Sweet.
>
> Back then, I used Shlomo Perets' TimeSavers to help produce the portable
> document format file that was the deliverable.  Sweeter.
>
> Done, done, done, and done.  Sweetest.
>
> <nostalgicfesponses>Welcome here.</nostalgicfesponses>
>
> Dave Stamm
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Framers [mailto:framers-bounces+david.stamm=gd-ms.com at lists.
> frameusers.com] On Behalf Of John Sgammato
> Sent: 2016-08-17-Wed 21:22
> To: framers at lists.frameusers.com
> Subject: [Framers] 114pp table
>
> Through a series of misadventures, I find myself these days working in a
> file with a table about 2000 rows long. Framemaker's not crashing!  I am
> not doing anything fancy like merging cells, but I sort the content, add
> and remove rows and columns, search and replace, etc, and Framemaker's not
> crashing.
> That's a great improvement over table behavior in older versions.
> Just thought you ought to know 😀
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