[softwarelist] Re: OPro seeming slow

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          David Pilling <flist@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> In message <108c2d7a50.jim@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Jim Nagel
> <opro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes
>>for each operation, OPro freezes the machine for 90 seconds -- it
>>gives no hourglass or other indication of doing anything, just twiddle
>>thumbs and wait for iconbar clock to jump to correct time, which is
>>the only clue that OPro has finished.  i presume OPro is reflowing the
>>rest of the document or something.  tedious.


> On the whole OP is quick, it can re-flow text as fast as Impression and
> it does it in the background.

> But there have been situations in which things are slow, some of them
> have been fixed some remain.

>  From your description it doesn't sound like you're doing anything
> particularly unusual.

> Oh hang on, lets say you *move* (copy+delete aka cut) a frame from page
> 2 to page 300. OP has no choice other than to reflow everything between
> pages 2 and 300, because it needs to know what page 300 is going to look
> like before it pastes the frame there.

> So a work around would be to copy from page 2 to page 300. Then delete
> everything from page 2 at the end of the day.

> Note that you can drag and drop frames (copy and move) and that you can
> have more than one window open on a document (one on page 2, one on page
> 300).

> But then again how are you doing this copying, via the clipboard?

Another alternative might be to move all the captions to a separate 
document, (which will involve a single reflow) then move them 
individually to where they need to be, which should avoid any reflow.



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Alan Adams, from Northamptonshire
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