[APBeta] Slow preview operations

[Paul Rodman]

OK, can you send me a screenshot of the print dialog so that I can  
attempt to reproduce your settings.

Paul R.

On May 1, 2009, at 02:22 PM, Anthony Tripodi wrote:

> 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
>
> ------------------------------------------------------------------
>
>
> 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.
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