Table problems

[Ken_Grace@adobeforums.com]

A couple of things just happened to me when doing a very big multi-frame
table.

In the last couple of frames of the table, the first cells in some rows
didn't display the contents. Nor would they show when printing to a
Postscript printer or Distiller. Selecting the cell and typing a character
displayed the cell's contents (plus the character I'd just typed) and
deleting the character left the text display in place.

Selecting a column and trying find and replace on selected items crashed
InDesign. Selecting a single cell and trying find and replace worked. Not
all the frames of the table were visible at the time.

Any thoughts?

k

[George_Bilalis@adobeforums.com]

Running very low on RAM resources perhaps?

George

[Greg_Gaspard@adobeforums.com]

Maybe you've got a word in the cell's text that is too long for the cell to display properly. I've had this happen before where ID just gives up on the cell (also happened to me with columned text, too) if a word cannot fit and cannot be hyphenated. Try adjusting the cell width, character width, character point size, indents, cell inset and/or tracking. Or, manually hyphenate and line break.

[Ken_Grace@adobeforums.com]

George: I'm always on the edge with RAM. The missing cell text occurred in
half a dozen or so cells and in each case was no more than three or four
characters, so I don't imagine RAM was the culprit here. Maybe in the find
and replace problem - I'm assuming that it should be possible to do what I
was trying. It may also have been that in some cells the find and replace
action would have caused overset in the cell, but whether that would be
enough to shut down InDesign I don't know.

Greg: I don't think that could be the problem. The undisplayed text all
fitted in the cell with no problem, and adding a space character got it to
display. Before I lit on just typing in a random character I copied and
pasted the correct entry from another cell, and both entries were then
displayed.


Thanks you both for the suggestions. I guess this is just InDesign getting
tired after a day's hard graft. Saying which, does anybody know whether
there is a speed benefit from frequent Save As? If InDesign is storing undo
actions, reason suggests that it is using steadily more memory, and that
doing a Save As every so often would release this memory to the benefit of
processing speed.

k

[George_Bilalis@adobeforums.com]

? If InDesign is storing undo actions, reason suggests that it is using
steadily more memory, and that doing a Save As every so often would release
this memory to the benefit of processing speed.




Yes. So a Save As will help in this direction. And running always on the edge with RAM while asking for yet another function to load, could bring you over the edge, LOL

rgrds
George

[Ken_Grace@adobeforums.com]

By the way George, my RAM position is not because I'm too mean to expand. I
did expand, but I hit the old_motherboard/new_RAM chips incompatibility, and
the machine will only read half the capacity of the sticks I put in. I think
I'm due for a computer update (typing quietly so the machine can't hear me)
when the RAM problem will definitely go away.

k

[George_Bilalis@adobeforums.com]

Yeah, I know what you mean. Small problems here and there that make life so much more interesting.

LOL
George