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• • September 10, 2010 at 12:51 pm #56973
    rydesign

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    I admit it I have fallen in love with GREP stlyes. I think I am so smitten with these guys and learning more about grep that I probally use them too much. Should I be worried about performance as I build more of the styles into my paragraph styles? I have to say with one of my long Docs with a few (fairly complicated) grep searches there has be a slight slow down. What do you think? Should I be worried about the stability of my documents?

    Also… As a Grep fan; and noticing that alot of the posts on the forum have to do with grep, Shouldn't there be a seperate Forum area Just for grep related stuff so we can reference it all at one time!

  • September 10, 2010 at 1:32 pm #56975
    Theunis De Jong

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    Heh heh. They are great innit?

    It's no more than logical that there is some penalty gets added for lots of, or very complicated — or both :) — GREP styles. I guess I'm lucky because my larger books (> 600 pp) get divided into separate files per chapter, only being glued together with the Book function on final exports. That might lessen InDesign's burden a bit.

    But it seems the GREP styles get processed as soon as you enter or change them; there is a delay, and then suddenly you see your text re-flow, highlight, format, and generally magically get transformed into smart text, and after that I haven't noticed (yet) any substantial extra delays on redrawing and editing the text.

    As for a separate GREP section: well … I dunno. I really enjoy pointing people towards a GREP search/replace or GREP Style solution even if they ask something not immediately related to it. They wouldn't know to ask such a question in a hypothetical GREP forum if they hadn't already considered using it in the first place.

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