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I am using Opus Pro XE 5.5.

I started building a single tutorial that I knew had the potential to become very large. Because I included many .WAV files and a lot of .JPG files, the size of the pub quickly blew out. When I had completed just over 7% of the pub, the the zipped backup file with resources was 141MB and the published version was 35MB.

This had become impossible to manage, so I broke this huge pub into 11 smaller, more manageable pubs.

Doing this removed the greatest benefit of having a single pub -- the ability to search across the whole publication.

My questions are:

1. Can Opus search across individual pubs? I'm sure the answer is "No", but I had to ask.

2. Does anyone know of a reasonably priced third-party application that will search across many .EXE files?

Hi Ray
I thought that one could not search an exe for text (assuming that's what you want to search) because the exe is compiled and executable and thus is not easily searched unlike a data file such as a .doc or pdf that has specialised viewing tools available to the user.
I'm racking my brains on this one and the only thing I can come up with is an index that is manually put together with links to the correct publication.
Hopefully someone else can prescribe an easy solution
Cheers
Graham

Hi Graham

Back in the dim distant past (in the 80s), I think I remember vaguely an application that might do that. Unfortunately, that's all I can remember.

Hi again Ray

That 1980's programme might have been PCTools.

I bought my first computer (a wonderful commodore 64) around March 1984 and had a tape drive originally.

Later on, we used to use PCTools on the old 5.25 inch disks to try to fix file damage or to edit high scores and stuff like that.

Used to be fun but the downside was that 10% of the time one would have success and 90% of the time, would muck things up even worse than what they were

Floppies like that used to be so unreliable compared to today's data storage but then again, back then we thought a 5.25 inch 360 kb (I think) was pretty awesome. 3.5inch disks emerged around then also and if you drilled a hole in the opposite side and were lucky you could use both sides of a single sided 3.5 and double the capacity.

Ahh, those were the days my friend!

Good luck with your exe search

Cheers

Graham

Ray,
by my reckoning your publication would have been about 500MB when complete which Opus would have been more than capable of handling.
Why not copy the 11 publications back into one using new chapters for each publication.

Regards

Brenden Knifton

Hi Brenden,

I wasn't concerned about Opus handling it. I knew it would handle that with no problem.

I was looking out for my welfare

Still, I might just think about doing that.

BTW, the "tutorial" (it isn't really, but that classification will do until I come up with something better) involves discussing and providing, where possible, "how to do" examples for every element on each of the Opus menus. I'm finding it fascinating, I'm learning a lot, revising things that I had forgotten, but it is quite time-consuming and wearing