[Publisher Using Excessive RAM when inserting PDFs]

I have some good news. We got that file to use around 4-5GB! It is only a temporary fix but will work for many of our daily uses. We have found if we change the print settings in Revit to export as a presentation-quality raster print, the final product is passable. It only works if you make a rasterized PDF out of Revit. Initially, we tried to rasterize using other programs, but you lose so much quality most of the exported linework doesn't print. 

It would be good to develop the program further to handle the vectors moving forward. This is only a 6-page document, and our Schematic Design books we produce with this are around 50 pages for a small project or 100-200 for a large building.

Again, we appreciate the help!

-Jake

[Publisher Using Excessive RAM when inserting PDFs]

So moving forward, is there a process you recommend to make the file less complex for Publisher to work with? This is a very simple file for us so it will be a major problem for us in the future.

[Publisher Using Excessive RAM when inserting PDFs]

For sure. We went through and simplified the linework as much as we could.

KEYPLAN - OVERALL BUILDING-GREY-HATCH-SIMPLE.pdf

[Publisher Using Excessive RAM when inserting PDFs]

Autodesk Revit. They have to be vector based or the quality is very bad when we plot

[Publisher Using Excessive RAM when inserting PDFs]

Hello Dan,

Thank you for the advice. I checked the resource manager and everything is linked, which we would prefer if we make changes. Just to try it I embedded everything and the file will not open after saving a new copy.  It is now resting around 55GB of ram just being used by Publisher. Do you think the file is corrupt or the program cant handle this type of use? Overall there isn't even that much data linked to the file, less than 100MB total. 

[Publisher Using Excessive RAM when inserting PDFs]

Hello everyone,

We have run into an issue with the speed/ performance of a fairly small file (56mb) and it is using upwards of 46GB of ram. We noticed it start to slow down when importing PDFs onto the sheets. We have recently switched to affinity. Perhaps there is a different way to place linked PDFs? It shouldn't be an issue as we have been doing the same task we are here, on much larger scales, for years in InDesign. So hopefully it's just a user error.

Thanks in advance!!

[Pasting and keeping formatting]

Thank you both for the feedback!

The solution was simple. Instead of ctrl+copy if I right click and copy with formatting, I can paste into the text boxes just fine. 

[Pasting and keeping formatting]

I have found that whenever I paste from a PDF or Word doc into publisher, I lose all of the existing formatting. This is causing us to lose way too much time. We can not place the PDF because we compile files from multiple firms into a single document with our design standards. 

Also, is there a way to use a polygonal lasso equivalent without holding down a modifier key in Photo?

Thank you in advance!