I'm publishing books. Slowly.

[Ian Tan]

Hi.

Publisher is slow. I've searched the forum and there are tons of this similar problem. I couldn't read all. And there's not thread that says "Problem solved. Click here!"

I hope some can assistance, even a little. I'm running on a pc notebook with 11 Gb RAM.

Sometimes it goes over 2000 MB memory. This program is the only one went beyond 3 figures. At first, Im like 'whatever, man'. But it starts crawling. It is playing catch up with my mouse and keyboard shortcuts. I think it is clear Publisher is struggling with memory management issue.

Ironically, I'm working on a book  - it's about looking at problems and solving them. Currently, I'm just setting the Master Pages only.

 

Hope to hear from the Affinity Team soon.

[carl123]

How much total memory does your PC have and how many pages is your book currently.

Also does it have images (if so, what percentage of pages have images)

 

[Komatös]

Hello @Ian Tan and welcome to the forums.

Please try the Publisher beta version. It contains a number of improvements.

 

[Ian Tan]

1 hour ago, carl123 said:

How much total memory does your PC have and how many pages is your book currently.

Also does it have images (if so, what percentage of pages have images)

 

Total 11Gb. The book as of now = 100 pages. All uses format from Master. Like a low content book, you see.

[John Rostron]

As @carl123 asked, does your book have images? If so are they linked  or embedded? If they are embedded, try converting them to linked.

John

[stokerg]

Just add to what's been said here @Ian Tan, also please do also try the beta that @Komatös has liked to.  The beta has had a number of improvements and should be quicker.  As it is a beta, i'd always recommend creating a copy of your main afpub file and opening the copy in the beta. 

[R C-R]

12 hours ago, Ian Tan said:

I'm running on a pc notebook with 11 Gb RAM.

Just curious, but how can you configure a notebook with 11 GB of RAM? Typically, the smallest RAM module for current & recent systems is 2 GB, & above that they come in increments like 4, 8, 16, or 32 GB.

[Ian Tan]

18 hours ago, John Rostron said:

As @carl123 asked, does your book have images? If so are they linked  or embedded? If they are embedded, try converting them to linked.

John

Hi John, No graphics except no-fill boxes. 

[Ian Tan]

18 hours ago, stokerg said:

Just add to what's been said here @Ian Tan, also please do also try the beta that @Komatös has liked to.  The beta has had a number of improvements and should be quicker.  As it is a beta, i'd always recommend creating a copy of your main afpub file and opening the copy in the beta. 

I'll give it a try. 

[Ian Tan]

9 hours ago, R C-R said:

Just curious, but how can you configure a notebook with 11 GB of RAM? Typically, the smallest RAM module for current & recent systems is 2 GB, & above that they come in increments like 4, 8, 16, or 32 GB.

R C-R, 
That's a good question and I dont know the answer.Notebook bought in 2016 - it came like like it is. Here's a screen shot: