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Hi,

We've been using VW2008 for a little while now (we were on 11 before) and I am finding that when I set up a drawing with several viewports on one sheet layer, it is quite slow to redraw everything when I move in and out of the sheet layer.

For example, if I double-click on the viewport and go into the design layer, then use the "Return to Viewport" yellow button in the top RH corner, it returns me to the sheet layer but it takes about 1 or 2 seconds to redraw everything on the screen before I can do anything. Same if I go in to edit annotations and then come back to the sheet layout. This might seem like a minor thing but it becomes quite irritating at the stage where I'm getting a layout set up on a page and I need to do lots of little changes to things in different viewports.

Does anyone else have this problem or is there anything I can do about it?

I'm on a Mac:

OS 10.4.11

Dual 2GHz PowerPC G5

1.5 GB DDR SDRAM

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Just out of curiosity, if you scroll around the viewport does it chug? If so, try pressing the escape key - when I do that, everything responds much faster. Curious as to why - it may be because hitting escape stops a full redraw, but in all cases that I have done this, the redraw of the visible screen has been complete at this stage.

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Just out of curiosity, if you scroll around the viewport does it chug? If so, try pressing the escape key - when I do that, everything responds much faster. Curious as to why - it may be because hitting escape stops a full redraw, but in all cases that I have done this, the redraw of the visible screen has been complete at this stage.

I'm not quite sure what you mean... do you mean moving around the sheet layer (with several viewports on it)?

There are no scroll bars so if I move around I tend to use the pan tool (the little hand tool).

Do you mean holding escape down, or pressing it while the screen is redrawing?

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I am having issues with vp s in worksheets slowing down to the point of inactivity when I try and select the vp and either update it or try to get to annotation mode. It happens after I've been in VW for a little while. After I quit VW and reopen, the problem seems fixed for a while. I think it may be an issue with the vp cache.

any thoughts.

thanks

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