[APBeta] Slow preview operations

[Anthony Tripodi]

Hello, Paul.

I shut down AP, rebooted my computer, and previewed a list of 33 items 
in only one plan. The problem remains.

There is, however, a slight change in my report below. I don't know if 
it makes a difference, but in the first paragraph below I wanted to 
preview the list before I printed it. So in that first paragraph, 
substitute the word "preview" where "print" is indicated. All else 
remains the same.

Thanks,

Tony

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OK. So we're still alive. Excellent!

In that case...

I just tried to print an observing list from .b35. I got at first a
printing wizard and was allowed to choose what I wanted. When I selected
"Print" I got first the little wristwatch, then the spinning beachball
of death. The beachball lasted maybe 3 minutes as page 1 was announced,
then page 2 went through the same sequence, as did page 3.

At the end of the sequence a preview was indeed produced, but any
movement of the mouse to manipulate the window resulted in the spinning
beachball of death for about a minute or so.

Now, as long as this preview window is alive, any other application that
I happen to use (Mail, for example) results in the same very slow
operation accompanied by the spinning beachball. When I canceled the
print preview (same slow response, but a successful operation) all other
operations returned to normal.

I'm running a Mac Intel Core 2 Duo at 2.4 GHz, 1 GB SDRAM, and 4 MB L2
cache. Software is OS X, 10.5.6.