Moving and inserting pages takes ages or locks up publisher

[Xytraz]

I am working on a book with >200 pages.

There are a lot of photos in it and I´d put it on the memory consumption but publisher stalls with about 600 MB (of 16GB RAM) usage and 0% CPU (of 8 core Threadripper)

when I want to move pages or insert pages.

After some time the crashpad_handler.exe starts and publisher permanently hangs.

 

[CvV]

I have a similar problem. I'm working on a book with 200 pages, only 15 photo's (linked) the rest is text (and just on the right page, no full page based connecting columns). Duplicating 2 text pages takes 3 to 4 minutes! CPU usage goes to 97%, memory goes from 40% to 95% (also 16GB RAM). Most of the times it doesn't hang, but to have to wait several minutes just by duplicating a spread is unworkable. After the duplication, CPU goes back to 0,1% and RAM to around 20% when I'm not using the computer (moving the mouse or scrolling the document).
I have tried several things. And found that:
A. Don't link Affinity Photo files in your Publisher document. I now export my Affinity Photo documents to TIFF files and import them into Publisher. The file size went from 120Mb to just 7MB. No more the advantage of editing your Photo files directly in Publisher
B. Don't use images. Yes, this is bizarre, but upon testing I found that images are the main reason the whole process slows down. I now have a text only document, and duplicating a spread now takes 10 seconds. I'll be adding all the images at the end of the total process. It's absolutely not what I want, but otherwise there is no way you can work 'quickly' with a document.

I was hopig a speed increase would make version 1.8 better than <1.7, but alas, it has gotten far worse actually. For a future update I am not interested in any new feature, I need a speed gain of 240%, so that adding 1 page takes 1 second.

[Pauls]

we're working on this issue right now - you can upload any samples files and we'll check that your issues have been fixed when a fix is available.

[CvV]

Thanks Pauls for such a quick reply. I have uploaded the file, it's called: topic_108569_publisher_slows_down_inserting_pages

[CvV]

The new beta (1.8.2.619) is a lot faster! At least it makes it workable now 😀

[CvV]

Downloaded the latest version that's now available (1.8.2.620) and the speed is now much better when inserting or duplicating pages. Although the program is still not super responsive when you want to edit text, you can place the cursor and start typing but then have to wait to see your text appear.