RE: More Word-97 Woes with valid JADE output

["Nilsson, David F" <dfnilsson@xxxxxxxxxx>]

I assume you have fast saves turned off. If fast saves are not turned off,
the document can grow without your knowledge and may behave oddly,
particularly if you are connected to a network. If fast saves have been on,
the document will usually shrink considerably if you turn them off and then
save the document.

Word97 does have some never-fixed memory problems that can cause graphics to
disappear when a document is reopened. Some of my colleagues have had
graphics replaced by a red X when they've reopened documents. All the
graphics have had to be reinserted. Word does seem unreliable for documents
over 100 pages when those documents have been created and edited in Word
(paragraph numbering, in particular, can vanish in unpredictable ways).

I'm concerned, however, that you are having problems when just using Word as
an output format for files in a markup language.

My company uses an in-house markup language for certain engineering
documents and then uses a custom engine (not using DSSSL) to create
FrameMaker, Word, or HTML files. Most large documents (1,000-plus pages)
have been created in Frame, but we now have a client who wants all files in
Word. Does anyone have experience with creating large Word files from files
in a markup language?

Dave N.
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David F. Nilsson
Training & Documentation Dept.
Union Switch & Signal Inc.
1000 Technology Drive
Pittsburgh, PA 15219
mailto:dfnilsson@xxxxxxxxxx

> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Ed Nixon [SMTP:ed.nixon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
> Sent:	Wednesday, October 13, 1999 1:51 PM
> To:	dssslist@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject:	RE: More Word-97 Woes with valid JADE output
> 
> Most of the folks in the tech doc field that I have spoken with tell me
> that
> you risk life and limb using Word for documents over 100 pages. You have
> either been lucky or proven them wrong.
> 
> I would recommend the Master Document functionality (which allows you to
> link/manage numerous smaller documents under one master) but have found it
> unreliable and scary. In the end it might not solve your problem anyway
> but
> you would have subdivided your large file into editable chunks. Come print
> time, I don't know what would happen.
> 
> 	...edN
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: owner-dssslist@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > [mailto:owner-dssslist@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of G. Ken Holman
> > Sent: Wednesday, October 13, 1999 10:43 AM
> > To: DSSSL List
> > Subject: More Word-97 Woes with valid JADE output
> >
> >
> > Hi folks!
> >
> > I'm currently producing a new version of some material I've
> > successfully
> > produced for many months using Jade and Word-97.
> >
> > The length of my materials has grown from 220 pages to 280 pages.
> >
> > All of a sudden, Word-97 will no longer display the logo
> > images I have on
> > each page after a fixed page number (238!) ... if I add pages
> > before page
> > 238, the "stoppage" still happens on page 238 and the pages
> > that previously
> > worked before page 238 now stop working after.
> >
> > This looks like a memory/capacities issue to me, but I have
> > no idea how I
> > might work around it.  Has anyone tripped over this before
> > and have any
> > suggestions?
> >
> > Thanks!
> >
> > .............. Ken
> >
> >
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