[Framers] Pros/Cons: Separate file per chapter, or one REALLY BIG FILE for an entire book

[Lin Sims]

The book PDFs usually run in the 3-10MB range. Individual chapters in FM
format can run up to 30MB or more. And as Rick said, we're talking about a
single FM file per chapter in a book, then generating a single PDF for the
book, not separate PDFs for each chapter.

(I wish we could reference images, but we've got an "interesting" hybrid
setup that also involves a content management system, and the unstructured
FM users have to embed the graphics.)



On Mon, Nov 7, 2016 at 2:43 PM, Robert Lauriston <robert at lauriston.com>
wrote:

> I always do one file, unless it gets so big that there are download
> problems. Then everything can be cross-referenced. You can have
> cross-PDF links, but they're more problematic. As a user, I always
> find it frustrating when large documents are split up.
>
> How big is the file if you generate one big PDF for the book?
>
> On Mon, Nov 7, 2016 at 10:46 AM, Lin Sims <ljsims.ml at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Pretty much what it says in the title. I'm guessing there have been
> > discussions about this in the past, and I plan to look for those, but I
> > thought I'd toss this out there anyway.
> >
> > We're talking chapters that can run a couple hundred (or more) pages
> loaded
> > with tables, graphics, and conditional text so that they can be used to
> > single-source multiple documents (no, don't talk to me about DITA, my
> > non-tech-writing boss wants it in unstructured).
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Lin Sims