David Major

Christian, I downloaded the file, and not the images. I tried to open it with Publisher. The progress bar moved very slowly (ten minutes or so), until it got to about 95%, and then it completely stopped. I left the computer for a couple of hours, and nothing happened, it was still stuck on 95% or so. Then I couldn't close Publisher by right-clicking on it in the task bar, so I had to launch the Task Manager to close it. There, I found that Publisher had now claimed almost all of my system RAM - over 7Gb. So, it must be getting into some loop? Sorry I couldn't be any more help, it does seem as though the issue is not the images, and is in the file somewhere.

Do you want to send me the file, and I'll see if I can open it here? Publisher has been running well for me lately.

I meant View > 'toggle ui' - F11

Try an experiment: disable the UI, and see if the lag persists.

I've been observing what causes this, and have come to some conclusions. Firstly, turning hardware acceleration off or on makes no difference. The issue seems to be connected with the drawing of lines. When the slowness has kicked in, if I am zoomed in enough, I can see that is the drawing of a line that takes a long time. It becomes fatter, slow step by slow step, taking way too long, until the line has reached the desired weight. Each 'step' can take a second or more. This affects lines that have been drawn using the pen tool, and also lines which have been specified as the border or decoration of a paragraph. If I move a text block that has a paragraph with a line as a border, it can take a long time to select the text block, to move it, and then for it to draw. The same delay applies when nudging an element using the arrow keys. But here's the fun part, and I think there could be a clue here - if I disable the UI, the slowness disappears. Everything works as fast and as snappy as it should. Then if I restore the UI, the slowness comes back instantly. The slowness is somehow being caused by an element in the UI. I've done this many times, and I have established it to be the case. As soon as the slowness starts kicking in, I go into 'no UI' mode, and work there.

Ja, das ist auch genau mein Problem. Es hat nichts mit Hardwarebeschleunigung zu tun, und die einzige Lösung besteht darin, das Programm zu beenden und neu zu starten. (Yes, this is exactly my problem too. It has nothing to do with hardware acceleration, and the only solution is to quit and relaunch the program.)

After using Publisher 2.0.4 for a half hour or so, on a 300 page book with a single text text chain spread in blocks over 290 of those pages, performance starts to get really choppy. If I click on a frame or text, it takes seconds for the fact to register. If I try to drag or resize something, the delay can be up to 10 seconds or so. The lagging and delay starts gradually, and then quickly worsens. The 'fix' is to quit the program, and then restart. This clears things up, and then it's all good, until everything starts slowing down again, typically in a half hour or so. This is the only problem I've observed so far.