FM9 running much slooooowwwer than FM7

OK, so I unchecked the "hide when closed" in the preferences. Now when I close all three designer panels, things do speed up a bit.

Still I find this troublesome because it would be nice to be able to keep those open and not have to open and close them all the time.

I did not know there were any patches forthe application. I am running 9.0p.  I'll try upgrading and see if that helps too.

Thanks

Indeed, Fm9 is A LOT slower and less stable than previous versions.

Like I said in the FrameUsers group, a new UI may be nice, but not if it undermines the stability and slows down Fm, which are, I  think, two of the key features for which (earlier versions of)  FrameMaker has always been renowned.

I think we can only hope that Adobe is listening to our comments and that they come up with a new version soon which is faster and more stable again.

Gary, can you identify any specific features of your files or workflow that might be "unusual", e.g.

• does this happen immediately after you've rebooted, with FM the only application running?
• Can you test without having an anti-virus or similar utility already running?
  
• Does it happen in a new blank FM document vs. pre-existing docs?
  
• Are your docs and all content  local files, on your system,  or are any components on a network?
• Do you use any graphics? Any FM plugins? 
• What specific version of FM (from Help > About)?

Sheila

Aside from the settings already discussed... if I were you, I'd go to the RAM store and get another stick -- if you're running the 32 bit version of windows, that'll give you a little extra horsepower. And if you're running the 64 bit version, pack in as much as you can...

You may also want to set your swap space to a high and static setting; that may wring a little more performance out of the system, assuming you have free disk space.

Art

This is a known bug in FM9 and the bug team is aware of it, but you ought to

report it again to help get some action. If you collapse or close the

Paragraph Designer and/or Character Designer, the slow cursor movement

disappears. (The degradation is additive, depending on whether one or both

of those panels is open.)

For most of the operations that you mention, I don't see the same level of performance degradation. Graphics objects move just as fast and seamlessly for me using the Alt+arrow keys. Scrolling through a long section of text using the arrow keys seems to be about 10% slower though (just by counting to ten to see how far the cursor is while down the arrow key). No spurts or hesitations though.

You might want to check if there are newer drivers for your graphics card?

One thing that is a real time killer is if you have lots of reference items (markers, variables, graphics, etc.) in your document and your workspace has the pods open for these, then opening a file is excruciatingly slow as FM9 has to populate these pods by reading through the entire first. It helps to have a custom workspace, where these pods are closed for starting up the document.