Posts by turbocooler

Oufti -- Thanks for the response. I am on Windows and my issue with the Resource Manager is that it does NOT display all the images in my document. I will report it as a bug as well.

Thanks for showing me how to report bugs. I will do that this week when I have some time off of work.

Here was my final solution:

1) Rasterize and trim all images. I had some images above 300dpi and extra unneeded data for some other images.

2) I am not sure how this was introduced into the text (see image below) but removing the underline by making it 0pt and removing the blue color was the biggest gain. I am a software engineer by trade, so I wrote a python program to examine the structure of the PDF. The setting that I removed had created nearly 700K Cubic Bézier curve commands. Now I only see 1,498. That alone decreased the PDF file size by 10mb and allowed the export to finish under 10min. Better than the 30+min prior. Still slower than I believe it should be but acceptable for what I am trying to do. I find it crazy that a simple setting like that could cause so much data to be created in the PDF file. It also prints much faster. But I feel the application is like a trap where you can find yourself in this loop by something I believe was valid and simple but cause me so much trouble. Unclear how Canva is trying to create the PDF but I was able to repro what I was trying to do using python and some pdf libraries, and I had 3,600 commands for what they generated nearly 700K and produced valid pages. I would submit what I found if I kn

I like to Thank EVERYONE on this thread for the assistance and the ideas that lead me to the solution. I am very grateful for the help. Thank you!

Quote from werfox

Hi turbocooler ,

the specs you provided do not contain any info about your CPU. Could you add that info?

PDF export is done mostly on the CPU so it could be the bottleneck, but it could be some object/effect layer in your layout that is causing the trouble. You can check this in your task manager: the CPU graph is probably at 100% x amount of CPU cores.

You could also try to export the first half of the layout (e.g pages 1 to 10) and then the rest and measure the time. Then again the first half of the first half and so on until you get the problematic page.

It could also be an image / pixel based graphic that is very big and is placed as a very small object so the resolution is extremely high (e.g. if an image in A4 @ 300 ppi is placed in a picture frame that is 20x30 mm big, the effextive resolution would become approx. 3000 ppi). Depending on your PDF export setting, the image resolution is then reduced to export resolution (e.g. 300 ppi) so the image must be recalculated. If there is some effect and/or transpacency applied, it could mean a slightly long export time. (But even then: 15 minutes for PDF export is quite long).

You also wrote about crashes / poor performance at page rendering: could you try to disable hardware acceleration in the settings? There were problems with NVIDIA drivers in the past and that could be a remedy.

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Processor Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-5930K CPU @ 3.50GHz, 3501 Mhz, 6 Core(s), 12 Logical Processor(s) -- Computer A
Intel Core i7‑11370H -- Computer B -- both have the same export issue.

The CPU graph is NOT 100%. It is barely 10% Exporting page 1-10 took as long as the whole document. Same for the rest of the pages

I suspect you are correct about the images. Is there a way in the pixel tab to click on a image and get the information about the image so I can tell or a way to down sample the image in the document? Or, do I need to export each image, change to 300dpi, then place the image back in the layout. I believe this may be my issue as it is the most plausible

As far as the crashes, I did disable hardware acceleration and that did solve my problem.

Thank you, I will give that try this evening.

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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.

Nothing proprietary but there is some PII and travel dates I need to sanitize first. I have zero idea who will be looking at this information, and I cannot trust it will not be misused.

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Hi! Has you tried changing the rasterize settings?
In my experience with some complex PDFs, i got good performance printing as bitmap, at from 150 to 300 dpi.

The pages are to be printed as double-sided pages, if I output to Bitmap, how do I set them to print?

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.