Convert xml to fm: very slow with russian/greek text, fast with westeuropean text

[PK-ulm]

Has somebody experienced a significant difference between opening a  russian xml file compared to opening a file with westeuropean text?

We have german xml files, opening them in FM9 (as well in FM10) takes about 2 min. The same with finish, french, etc.

Opening  the "same" file, translated into russian or greek takes about 50 min!  Structure, attributes, file size are identical to the german file.

Thanks for your tipps and experiences

[Michael_Müller-Hillebrand]

PK,

Two minutes sound like those documents create quite a few pages or have a lot of formatting applied to them. In general this behavior should not be expected.

• What font is the template using? Does it have the glyphs required for Cyrillic and Greek texts?
• Is the EDD using references to catalog formats or does it work with Format Change Lists to create the formatting?
• Is there some language attribute that may trigger some special formatting?
• Does the EDD come from pre-Unicode days and still tries to work with special Cyrillic or Greek fonts?

Just guesses.

- Michael Müller-Hillebrand

[PK-ulm]

Michael,

thanks for your tips.

2 min is ok for us, the resulting fm document is about 400 pages long.

To have a very clean test environment, I created (in FM9) a new EDD from the DTD, and did not add any formatting rules at all. So the EDD only contains elements and attributes.

I imported the EDD into a new blank FrameMaker document.

• What font is the template using? Does it have the glyphs required for Cyrillic and Greek texts?

Times New Roman. This works correct with cyr and gr documents with a size of 300 kB.

• Is the EDD using references to catalog formats or does it work with Format Change Lists to create the formatting?

Currently, in my test edd, I have no formatting infos at all, only elements and attributes.

• Is there some language attribute that may trigger some special formatting?

No.

• Does the EDD come from pre-Unicode days and still tries to work with special Cyrillic or Greek fonts?

To avoid this, I created a new EDD from the DTD, and let it very blank, with no formatting information at all.

Regards, Pia

[Michael_Müller-Hillebrand]

Pia,

All this sounds very good. Since you also tested with FrameMaker 10 I don’t think that the patch version of FrameMaker 9 is important, but nevertheless: Do you have 9.0p255?

Otherwise, if the information in the XML file is not super secret I would like to try to reproduce the effect. You’ll find my contact data easily.

- Michael Müller-Hillebrand, CAP-Studio.de

[PK-ulm]

Michael,

uups, I work with 9.0p237, but I'll download 9.0p255 today. Nethertheless I'll send you the examples by email. Thanks for your help!

Pia