Splitting up large files

[davidrendall]

I have a large html file which is very slow to load/read on Isilo on the palm. Is there any way of getting Isilox (on Win2K) to split the file into chapters (e.g. based on the header tags) during conversion?

Thanks,
David R.

[iSilo]

There is no way to have iSiloX automatically split a document.

What specific aspects are slow? Does opening up the document take a long time? If so, how long? Does scrolling through the document take a while? If so, what is the exact behavior? Does jumping through the document take a while? How long?

[davidrendall]

Thanks for your quick reply

Opening is normal speed once you take the images out (doh!), but scrolling is still a problem. When you get into the second half of the document, scrolling to the next page takes a couple of seconds compared to the usual near-immediate scroll.

David R.

[iSilo]

The behavior you describe would be consistent with a large document located on an external memory card, as opposed to one stored in the internal storage memory of your device.

The delays are caused by iSilo needing to read the parts of the document it needs to use at the moment into the internal memory as it uses them. iSilo uses the available storage memory to cache portions of the file from the card, so the more free internal storage memory you have, the better the performance will be. So it helps to have a lot of free internal storage memory.

[davidrendall]

That makes sense as this was stored on the memory stick of my clie. I'll try and free up some internal memory to help with caching. Thanks very much for your advice.