Shell, Robert wrote: > Dear Framers: > I have been enjoying unparalleled stability with my FM 8.p20? running on > Vista Business edition (with all updates). I have now graduated to the > Professional Communications Suite 2 and also bought FrameScript. I am a very > happy camper, although surveying many learning curves. > > Nevertheless, the stability of FM9 has encouraged me in my humble > unstructured authoring style to take on a really ambitious project. > Historians like me use primary documents, i.e. eyewitness accounts as their > building blocks in all their interpretations which are called secondary > sources. This entails that few people can ever become historians because > trips to archives are so expensive and intimidating that few venture back > after their first visit. > > I think I can fix that. I figured that primary documents can easily be fed > into FM and then edited with footnotes and indexed with multiple indexes. > Thus even I am providing only a glorified finding aid, I am still providing > a huge, new and fast service to all would be-historians. All in pdf. > > My first attempt is now in its second edition and is 7,000 pages long of > which 1,000 pages were 7 indexes, viz. authors, persons, places, subjects, > ships, titles and a timeline. The first edition was authored using PageMaker > with a single index. With the second edition, using FM 8, I experienced > problems (hangings or crashes) with the generation of all these heavily > formatted indexes, some three levels deep. But I persevered and the CD is > now on sale with clickable indexes and embedded Flash movies, etc. > > Now with FM9 I have created a full suite of new documents of 42,000 pages, > and when I say pages I mean real pages as in a 19th century book (300 words > a page). > > So my first question is. Does anyone know what the upper limits of FM9 are > with regard to > a) number of subdocuments and > b) number and complexity of indexes. > c) total number of pages > Will Acrobat reader manage with all this? > > Finally, does anyone with FM use two screens? I am unhappy with all these > boxes and pods in FM9 and would like them all on a second screen (which I > would have to buy). I have not learnt how to dock them yet. Any hints > gratefully received. > > Thanks to the organizers of this wonderful listserv. > > Rob Shell >
Maybe you could ask Bill Gates about using two displays.Some computer show over the weekend mentioned that Bill was a three-monitor guy. Gary _______________________________________________ You are currently subscribed to Framers as arch...@mail-archive.com. Send list messages to fram...@lists.frameusers.com. To unsubscribe send a blank email to framers-unsubscr...@lists.frameusers.com or visit http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/archive%40mail-archive.com Send administrative questions to listad...@frameusers.com. Visit http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info.