Memory Requirements

Because we want to keep the Notebooks as small as possible in terms of memory requirements (as well as disk space used), if you have large topics (e.g. greater than 2-3000 characters) in your Notebooks you may want to test the Notebook thoroughly before you distribute it. 

The initial memory requirement for a newly created Notebook is 80k - if you have large topics, or a large number of topics,  this may need to be increased, otherwise the Notebook may run out of memory when you try and perform a search. If the memory allocation is not large enough, the application will not run when double-clicked — you will be warned to increase the memory partition first.

In general a Notebook topic can contain up to 32,000 characters. However, depending on the font and font size you use to display the topic, this may be reduced. For example, a topic containing 25,000 characters of Times font at a size of 36 points will almost invariably be too large for the Notebook to handle. In this case the problem is not one of a lack of memory allocated to the Notebook, but one of the underlying Macintosh technology used—you will need to split your large topic up into several smaller (shorter) ones.