Large document management

[Nmorgan]

I have a large word file (set up as a master document)
which I would like to import into Publisher 2002 and am
wondering if it can handle a document in the 200 page
range. Does anyone have any experience with this?

 

[Ed Bennett]

Whilst attempting to develop brick-based storage technology, Ed reads a

I have a large word file (set up as a master document)
which I would like to import into Publisher 2002 and am
wondering if it can handle a document in the 200 page
range. Does anyone have any experience with this?

Publisher files have an upper limit of 2 gigabytes. I don't believe there
is a page limit.
However, why did you set up the file in Word? Would it not have been easier
to do it straight into Publisher?
I would sugest copying it into Notepad first, as Publisher does not always
import Word documents very well, and large documentts could take
unnecessarily long from Word.

 

[Ed Bennett]

Whilst attempting to develop brick-based storage technology, Ed reads a

I have a large word file (set up as a master document)
which I would like to import into Publisher 2002 and am
wondering if it can handle a document in the 200 page
range. Does anyone have any experience with this?

I forgot to mention in my previous post that whether Publisher will handle
it depends on your PC
After doing some tests, I have found that system performance degrades
steadily as the number of pages goes up, but with simple documents it does
not degrade noticably on my old machine (PIII450) until you get about 3000
pages. However, that's probably because I have 600 mb of RAM.
The most difficult bit with large documents is page navigation - you can
only fit about 30 pages on the bar at the bottom (in 1024x768 resolution),
and it takes a while to scroll across. So you need to run in the highest
resolution you can - this means having a good graphics card and monitor to
maximise your resolution capabilities. Also, when you get above 1000 pages,
the text starts to overflow the page icons on the bar - which can be
annoying, but it isn't too serious
To prevent system lag with large documents, make sure that you have as much
RAM as possible (fast RAM helps, but it tends to be quantity here) and a
massive swap file on a fast hard drive.

 

[°°°M°S°°Publisher°°°]

If this document has a photographs or artwork you will need end up with
files of a significant size, and it is imperative you have a cached 7,200rpm
hard drive, a minimum of 256Mb ram and a well above average video card.

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