add citation slows as document size (not number of citations) increases

hmarquis · January 19, 2009

Zotero 2.0a2 plugin for Mac Word 2008 becomes slower as document size increases. A few pages is very fast to insert citation, try it on a document with 150+ pages.... it can takes 20+ seconds (or more). As document size increases, so does the time it takes to insert/edit/etc. Since these methods all use dataString = self.doc.getDocumentData() perhaps loading the entire Word document (if that is what it does...) is non-optimal.

Not sure where to report this...

Using mac OSX 10.5.6
Firefox 3.1b2
Mac Word 2008 plugin 2.0a2
Zotero 1.5-sync3.6

Simon · January 19, 2009

getDocumentData() does not load all of the document (nor does anything else in the code). Does this happen with both in-text and footnote citations?

hmarquis · January 23, 2009

I am only using in-text citations. I have split my document into 7 parts to achieve decent performance. There is definitely a relationship between document size (e.g., page count) and time to insert...

Hank