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1. Re: Cross references are just unusable
[Jongware] Oct 14, 2010 1:45 PM (in response to nick25)It helps -- a bit -- if you have each and every document opened in ID.
It's sort of like the Change Page Numbering feature for a book; ID has to open, change, and save each of the documents -- with cross-refs, it has to look up each and every cross-reference. Perhaps they should add a 'don't update right now' checkbox ... or not check them all if the original document was not changed!
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2. Re: Cross references are just unusable
macinbytes Oct 14, 2010 1:54 PM (in response to nick25)Index crossreferences or the junky thing found in the hyperlinks panel?
Indexing isn't bad, but can bloat. I'm in the middle of a job with a huge index. Beats editing by hand.
I think people are under the impression the thing in the hyperlinks panel is usable for anything other than making an excuse to hit the pub are grossly misinformed though.
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3. Re: Cross references are just unusable
peter at knowhowpro Oct 14, 2010 2:14 PM (in response to nick25)nick25 wrote:
As stated in several other discussions (with NO answers), using cross references in a multi-document book is ridiculous. Every single change made in the document cause a slow-down that is just absurd -- it's taking me 10 minutes to change a SINGLE WORD. Does Adobe or anyone else have a solution to this problem? Because without one, you might as well just throw the feature away. Totally useless.
I suggested a third-party commercial plug-in in this thread: http://forums.adobe.com/message/3208581#3208581
There's also a link to the Adobe feature request page. Add your vote.
HTH
Regards,
Peter
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4. Re: Cross references are just unusable
nick25 Oct 15, 2010 5:38 AM (in response to peter at knowhowpro)Sometimes you just have to chuckle. After a relaxing night, I come back to once again face this dopey issue. I open the book, then one of the documents therein. I make ONE a ONE-CHARACTER CHANGE and watch as the document I opened goes out and opens another document in the book, one that it obviously contains cross references to, FIFTEEN TIMES IN A ROW (yes, I counted), probably once for each link in the document. Obviously, I am now going to open that other document FIRST to hopefully speed up the process. But you just have to laugh -- maybe I CAN laugh because it's Friday -- at how a programmer at Adobe can let something as blatantly stupid as this happen in a finished product. Oh, and I bet this is going to make exporting to PDF and any indexing completel impossible, too. Thanks Adobe, for this brilliant "design". Wow.
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5. Re: Cross references are just unusable
peter at knowhowpro Oct 15, 2010 7:51 AM (in response to nick25)nick25 wrote:
Sometimes you just have to chuckle. After a relaxing night, I come back to once again face this dopey issue. I open the book, then one of the documents therein. I make ONE a ONE-CHARACTER CHANGE and watch as the document I opened goes out and opens another document in the book, one that it obviously contains cross references to, FIFTEEN TIMES IN A ROW (yes, I counted), probably once for each link in the document. Obviously, I am now going to open that other document FIRST to hopefully speed up the process. But you just have to laugh -- maybe I CAN laugh because it's Friday -- at how a programmer at Adobe can let something as blatantly stupid as this happen in a finished product. Oh, and I bet this is going to make exporting to PDF and any indexing completel impossible, too. Thanks Adobe, for this brilliant "design". Wow.
Not fun, I agree.
Just a wild guess: have you verified that Preferences > File Handling > Links > Check Links Before Opening Document is disabled (unchecked?) I don't know if x-refs are processed by this option, but it's a possibility worth trying. And, if your docs contain many links, it's probably worth disabling whenever it won't affect your work.
Other slow-down features I don't think have been mentioned include Preferences > Spelling > Dynamic Spelling, and Preferences > Autocorrect. Disabling both of these may improve text handling.
HTH
Regards,
Peter
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