Import Information Regarding Use of the Text Display Area

When opening the text display area, either as a result of clicking the blue triangle in the Errors window, or as a result of displaying the Errors window (and the text display area being down), or as a result of the Errors window being displayed during the course of a scan (and the text display area being down), PageInspector will calculate line breaks of the text file.  Depending on your Mac's speed, this may take some time.  (A 250K file takes just over 3 seconds on a 180MHz 603e, and almost one minute on a IIcx).  During this time, a large white area is shown at the bottom of the Errors window.  PageInspector has not crashed.

Line breaks are also re-calculated whenever the open file is modified, such as when the "Fix" or "Delete" buttons are clicked.  This will result in a similar delay.

If you do not wish to wait the entire duration of this calculation, you can abort this operation by pressing the "escape" key, or the "command" key while pressing the full-stop key.  The text display area will be closed.

You may wish to only use the text display area for small files, keeping it closed while editing large files if you have a slower Mac.