PUB 03 - Very Very Slow 'Save as Pic'

[redruthann]

Win XP, Pub 03
No other Apps open

I'm having trouble with 'save as picture'. It can take 5 min or more to
complete the task. The result of the saved jpeg is average appx 2-3 megs.
Even without any pics.

I'm selling a few things through craigslist. I post a link to my Yahoo
Photos for descriptions and pics. I use Pub to create a kind of information
sheet with pics when needed. I do create them larger than the 'page', it
gives a bit more freedom. When finished, I save as a jpeg in order to upload.

This really really slows my entire computer. Sometimes it takes well over
5min - even with no other apps running - or without any pics, just text boxes.

I know that this would not be a quick save, but this is rediculous. My
laptop is well capable of using large apps: Corel Photopaint, ACD See,
Office Apps...and even when they are all running. Of course there is a bit
lagging at times, but nothing like Pub.

Can Pub even handle this? If not, then why make it possible. I know that
there are other .pub s that have large images...I am not aware that there is
a limit for this.

Can anyone shed some light here????

Thanks
Ruth

 

[Mary Sauer]

Slide the acceleration down on your adapter, you could need an updated
video/graphics driver. Instructions here, FAQ 3.
http://ed.mvps.org/Static.aspx?=Publisher/FAQs

Have you considered a disk cleanup? Right-click your hard drive, properties,
disk cleanup. It may take a while to populate. Keep the Office setup files.

 

[Mike Williams]

Win XP, Pub 03
No other Apps open
I'm having trouble with 'save as picture'. It can take 5 min or
more to complete the task. The result of the saved jpeg is
average appx 2-3 megs. Even without any pics.

Five minutes is an extraordinarily long time to save a jpeg, and 2 to 3 megs
is a rather large size for a jpeg file, unless the pixel size of your image
is very large and your jpeg compression ratio is of very high quality. What
page size are you using, and what output resolution? Publisher gives you
some control over the resolution (dpi) b ut I don't think it gives you any
con trol over the jpeg compression ratio (I never use it to produce jpegs)
but from a few quick tests it seems to give you about 20 to 1 overall file
size reduction when compared to a full colour bitmap of the same pixel size,
so your 2-3 meg jpeg is probably something like 3000 by 4000 pixels. That's
rather a large pixel size for images which you appear to be using purely to
display on a typical 96 dpi monitor, or are you outputting them to a
printer? Even if you are, such a resolution is suitable for quite large
prints. Do you really need such a large size? If not then change the
Publisher output resolution to 96 dpi, or re3duce the size of your Publisher
page.

Anyway, having said all that, five minutes is still an amazingly large time
for any application to create a jpeg of that size. Perhaps you need to check
out your machine? In the meantime, have you tried using PDFCreator to create
your jpegs from Publisher? PDFCreator gives you much more control than
Publisher over dpi settings and jpeg compression ratios. It's completely
free and it comes from the highly respected SourceForge people. Check it out
at:

http://sourceforge.net/projects/pdfcreator/

It'll produce output in a variety of formats, including pdf (naturally!),
jpg, png, tiff and a few others.

Mike

 

[Mike Williams]

.. . . by the way, if your machine is taking a very long time to work with
large pixel size images then it is often a sign of a memory problem, causing
the machine to continually hit its disk swapfile. How much RAM do you have
installed, and what video card are you using (the "built into the
motherboard" video chips often "steal" up to 128MB or more of system RAM).
Run dxdiag if you're not sure.

Mike