Is there any way to improve performance of PDF exports/printing?

  • I am using Windows 10 Pro
    I have 32gig of RAM
    Nvidia Graphic Card with 4gig of RAM
    I am writing to a SSD Drive

    I have also installed the application on a more modern Windows 11 Pro Laptop with better specs but I see zero improvement in performance.

    I have 19 page layout for an Itinerary I am developing for a friend. I do not have a lot of images. Only 6 total. I do have a lot of layers.
    I am trying to export the layout to PDF. Does not matter if I use high res, print, low res, etc. Exporting to PDF takes well over 15min making my workflow very painful.

    Printing is even more intolerable as it could easily take 40min to begin printing so I export to PDF and then print from Adobe Reader PDF.

    Is there any way to increase performance or is this as good as it gets? I have to finish this project but may just punt once I am done given how painfully slow this application seems to be for me.

    On Windows 10 or 11 I have also experienced random crashes clicking from one set of pages in the layout to another or major slow down where it takes 5 seconds or more to render the page that I want to work on next. It has been a nightmare.

  • If your file is not proprietary, I'd recommend uploading it to CreoFora (or if too large, to Dropbox, iCloud, etc, and provide a link) and perhaps someone can see why things are so slow. Things are usually quite fast for me and others.

    2024 MacBook Pro M4 Max, 48GB, 1TB SSD, Tahoe O/S 26, Affinity v1, v2 & v3, Adobe CS6 Extended, LightRoom v6, Blender, InkScape, Dell 30" Monitor, Canon PRO-100 Printer, i1 Spectrophotometer, i1Publish, Wacom Intuos 4 PTK-640 graphics tablet, 2TB OWC SSD USB external hard drive, Logitech MX Anywhere 3 bluetooth mouse.

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