Book length doc with lots of graphics -- recommendations?
Posted: 2016-10-17 09:07:05
I have a book length technical document (~300 pages, 70,000 words, 220 MB) with hundreds of embedded graphics (mostly pdf format), text boxes, and mathType equations that was created in Pages. Some of the graphics are in-line but the vast majority, for formatting sake, are set up to move with text but cause word wrap around the graphics. Pages is actually remarkably snappy in opening, displaying, scrolling, etc. in page layout view. It would, however, be nice to use some of NWP's long document creation tools for this document.
I am well aware that converting the document and reformatting will be a huge amount of work; my question, however, is if I do all that work will it have been worth it? Or, will the document created be so incredibly slow to open, crash-prone, or unusable that the effort will have been completely wasted ? Are there successful strategies for breaking such a project up into smaller, chapter-sized chunks while still realizing the benefits of a book length document such as a single index for the entire work, table of contents for the entire work, cross-referencing to different chapters etc.
Thanks for any advice from the collective wisdom of the forum!
I am well aware that converting the document and reformatting will be a huge amount of work; my question, however, is if I do all that work will it have been worth it? Or, will the document created be so incredibly slow to open, crash-prone, or unusable that the effort will have been completely wasted ? Are there successful strategies for breaking such a project up into smaller, chapter-sized chunks while still realizing the benefits of a book length document such as a single index for the entire work, table of contents for the entire work, cross-referencing to different chapters etc.
Thanks for any advice from the collective wisdom of the forum!