If any of you have documents with large numbers (thousands) of markers, you may have noticed a performance problem in FM9. When you open such a document, FM appears to "freeze" for up to several minutes while loading/opening the document.
One possible work-around would be to save as a setting whether Framemaker starts with the marker pod open or not. I haven't been able to find a persistent setting that does this. (if you know how to do this, please let me know).
Another possible work-around would be to close the "Marker" pod before opening the document. This is not possible if Framemaker is being started by double-clicking on an associated document, or programmatically.
A third possibility would be to code a Framemaker add-in with the FDK that closes the Marker pod. I haven't looked into this option yet (but have developed other add-ins with FDK). If you what functions might be used to accomplish this, or where to find an example, please let me know.
a non-possibility is to permanently remove the markers from the document. This doesn't work for me because the markers are an integral part of another application that uses them to know where insert/replace updated data from a database.
The best solution would be to fix the problem at its source - presumably some really poor programming in the product itself.
Any other ideas or suggestions?
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