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Page Swapping

    24-Feb-92 18:00:12
Sb: #34232-Page Swapping
Fm: Carl Bethea [Adesk] 71601,2574
To: TOM TORRE 76150,2657
Tom – Zowie. A 1.3 Mb drawing file that expands to 25Mb upon start up, and produces a 97Mb swap file after half an hour of work? My goodness, that's a lot of text. The 29 attributes per block are the main source of the overhead, I'm sure. You might try freezing some of the layers that aren't in use. Now you know the value of extended entity data, eh? As some of the fellows have suggested, you can use different font files for work and for plots. Use the STYLE command to replace ROMANT with TXT while you're working, then redefine the styles for the attributes to ROMANT before you plot.