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Current document statistics

You may obtain a report on the number of pages in your document and the available menory by selecting the Statistics menu item.

The dialog box provides information about the amount of time spent in Calamus, the total number of pages, the last page with frames on it and the amount of free memory in your computer and on your hard drive (see Fundamentals, Computer information display). You can also see how much memory there is left for your document to use. Note that Calamus needs some of the memory to execute its own internal functions. The extended memory on the hard drive is somewhat limited: the Atari laser printer, for example, cannot use it, but requires free memory in the computer itself. Virtual memory is not in the computer, but on the hard drive (see Fundamentals). The Empty caches button will free up all cache memory used internally by Calamus (see below, Miscellaneous menu entry) – as a result, the next screen display will take longer to redraw, but you will know exactly how much memory is available.

Current document size

Here you will see the current size of the document in memory. This information is used by Calamus when saving document. Calamus first checks if the target medium still has enough space for the current document.

Clear caches

As you may know, Calamus caches almost every type of already calculated element in memory, like the screen output of a page or single frame types, generated raster screens etc. so they can be used much faster for the second time. For instance, if the pages of a document are cached already, browsing it on the screen is much faster for the second time.

But there are also moments or jobs where you need memory more than speed. For instance, you may reach critical memory requirements when printing in high resolution – if you see the number of print strips increasing very quickly, this points to a lack of memory. But many caches are even saved with the document they belong to. You might regard them as ballast when memory gets tight.

In these cases please press the button Empty caches. Calamus immediately initializes a garbage collection, and deletes all caches which belong to the current document or to the Calamus system itself.