OK, let's see if I can explain this…
I have a book of approximately 300 pages. Destined for print. Has about 15 chapters. The main TOC is chapter titles and subtitles, so has 15 entries. The other TOC is a list of illustrations based on the caption paragraph style and has around 30 entries, all of which come from the last two chapters (where all the plates are).
I use Suitcase Fusion to manage the fonts.
When I update the TOC InDesign has to open every file's fonts (though it opens entire huge families even though only a couple members of the family are used in any text or any style anywhere in the book) as it updates all numbers, then has to do it again for every file as it looks for the styles that make up the TOC. This is done whether the files are open or closed.
Two odd things:
1) It sometimes cycles through opening all the files and their fonts 3 or 4 times before updating the TOC.
2) An error message pops up randomly while ID is opening/checking all the book's files, telling me Distiller has stopped functioning and has to close. As far as I know, I'm not using Distiller while updating the TOC or numbering. There's never a problem when exporting to PDF.
(Both of the above also happen sometimes when I update page numbering from the book panel.)
And sometimes, but I can't find any pattern to when, the whole process just hangs and ID stops responding and I have to kill it.
All of this, by the way, is in Windows 7.
My first order of business is to figure out how to get it to ignore all the unused fonts, which should speed things up. I don't know if it's ID or Suitcase that's doing it and haven't had time to experiment.
Anyone have any insights on any settings that might streamline the updating of TOCs? These crashes are killing me!
Regarding the 2nd TOC (the illustrations list), is there a way to have it look only at the chapters (files) that have the style(s) involved in the list? No other files in the book have the Captions to TOC style.
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