I have an eight page flyer with 136 linked pictures. Total size of document and pictures is less that 1 Gb. However, when I open with affinity publisher, it consumes gargantuan amounts of RAM. My Win 10 pro 3.4 Ghz core i3 with 8gb of RAM works very sluggishly and publisher hangs regularly. Try to print and it takes abysmally long (ten minutes) if it will ever perform the task.
Because of these issues, I switched to using a RDP session on Server 2012r2. With 48gb of ram to blow and a 6 core Xeon 2.2 Ghz processor you'd think it should work fine. But here I see Publisher itself with this document open shows almost 10Gb of Ram used just for itself. Opening the file take at least half a minute. When I close even without saving changes, Publisher goes into "not responding" mode for about 20 seconds. And I can't even have two of these open together to copy things between without severe issues scrolling or flipping between documents.
I saw other posts from two years ago and not much help was given other than free up space for swap. But for me swap is not going to speed me up will it? Just make it behave even more slowly.
I am running Publisher version 1.9.2.1035 and hope that this issue can be resolved sometime. I don't understand why 1gb of pictures needs to take 10gb of RAM. I attached the file and a folder with the pictures for you to look at and give me some advice.
June 2020.afpub
Pictures.zip
