Lagging

[Jillian]

Hi there, please can you help me. I create digital planners in publisher . I moved away from illustrator to affinity but I am experiencing an issue and I am not sure what I am doing wrong. When I export the planner as a pdf and import it to goodnotes. I experience a lag between pages of quite a few seconds when I click the hyperlinks.  So I thought maybe this is a goodnotes issue so I downloaded Noteshelf to test this. There too is a lag , so I assume this must be an affinity issue. Or something I am not doing on affinity. Can anybody help me please?

[Dan C]

Hi @Jillian,

Welcome to the forums

I'm sorry to hear you're having trouble, this sounds as though the issue is with the PDF readers and not the Affinity app however, as your reporting the document is slow in third party apps.

Can you please try opening the PDF in a web browser, such as Google Chrome. Are your hyperlinks still slow to respond?

Can you also please confirm for me, are you using Mac or Windows?

Many thanks in advance!

[Jillian]

hi there, thank you so much for coming back to me.

I thought it was the third party app and so I purchased another pdf reader to test it . But I was having  a similar issue, so I didn't think it was that. I use my pc to design and my ipad to read the pdf's.

So this morning I tried to export my pdf as 96 DPI instead of 300 and now I have no lag. So  this seems to be where my problem lies ( or solution).

When I exported at 300 DPI it would take an extremely long time to export as well , but at 96 it was super quick.

So i think this is what I need to do from here on. Not sure I fully understand the DPI's yet as I am completely new to this world. I need to do more homework on this.

I am grateful the problem is solved but I am trying to understand why/what and how.

Thanks so much

Jillian

 

 

[Dan C]

Thanks for letting me know Jillian, when specifying the DPI of the exported document, you are essentially changing the perceived 'quality' of the document, as the DPI value controls how many 'dots per inch' the document has, and the more of these the higher the 'quality' you can achieve. 

By reducing this DPI value of the document, you have likely both reduced it's overall file size and the required resources to open / read this document.

As the document now requires less RAM to open, your iPad might certainly find it easier to follow these hyperlinks as it has more 'power' still available than when opening your 300dpi document.

I hope this clears things up for you

[Jillian]

Thank you so much, you have explained this in a way that googled couldn't. 

I appreciate your help with this. You have really cleared it up in an easy to understand manner.

Take Care

Jillian

[shingfun]

Cool, I need to try Affinity. Usually, I just use keynote to make my own digital planner. 

Thanks for sharing.