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Drawings
to recreate the indexes in this release to ensure that they in-
clude any new features, such as color book names.
Raster Images
When you hide an image, the image does not display on-
screen, nor does it plot. Only the image boundary displays
To hide an image (page
485)
onscreen. Hiding images is a convenient way to speed re-
generation time. You can easily redisplay the image when
you are ready to plot.
To conserve memory use and enhance performance, you
can unload images that you do not currently need to view
and/or plot.
To unload an image
(page 486)
Because memory management can be an issue when
working with large images, you can configure the Raster
To configure memory for
images (page 259)
Extension for best performance. Specify the amount of
memory reserved for the image swap file. The higher the
Memory Limit, the less swapping to hard disk occurs and
the faster your images load and display. For best perform-
ance, use a local drive for your temporary swap file.
Display your images in high quality or draft quality. High
quality dithers the pixels so that the areas between shading
To change the image
display quality (page 254)
appear more gradual. Draft quality can speed up the per-
formance of your system, but may reduce the quality of how
some color and gray scale images appear onscreen.
Topology
Improve the performance of buffering operations by increas-
ing the RAM to more than the recommended amount, or
Buffering a Topology
by increasing the virtual memory on your system. This is
recommended if you are buffering large topologies.
DataView
Filter, or limit, the data displayed in the Data View. Filters
let you view only the records you want. This can improve
To use a SQL filter in the
Data View (page 1231)
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