Pep75 Posted February 15, 2023 Share Posted February 15, 2023 Hi All, When I want to generate a preview in Designer en Publisher when exporting to PDF this is taking ages. Even small size documents cost a lot of time generating a preview. I'm I doing something wrong? Thanks! Pep Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MikeTO Posted February 15, 2023 Share Posted February 15, 2023 You're not doing anything wrong, I find it really slow, too, so I just ignore the preview and export immediately. With my current book file it takes 2 minutes and 43 seconds to generate a pdf preview on an M1 Pro. And the preview is just of the first page which has a single text frame with six words of text. The problem is that Publisher goes through the entire document to preview it and calculate file size but shows just a preview of just one page. Pep75 1 Quote Download a free manual for Publisher 2.4 from this forum - expanded 300-page PDF My system: Affinity 2.4.2 for macOS Sonoma 14.4.1, MacBook Pro 14" (M1 Pro) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lacerto Posted February 15, 2023 Share Posted February 15, 2023 10 hours ago, MikeTO said: The problem is that Publisher goes through the entire document to preview it and calculate file size but shows just a preview of just one page. The processing could be improved so that generation of the preview of the first page of the specified range is shown as soon as possible (similarly as when only one page is selected to be exported) and the actual "prerendering" performed in the background. As preview is now always shown, users typically wait for preview to appear simply to verify that rendering is as expected, without necessarily realizing that it is not necessary to wait for the process to finish (or preview to be displayed). That a full "prerendering" is done is ok since it e.g. shows realistically the file size and whether something will be rasterized in the export. MikeTO and Pep75 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pep75 Posted February 16, 2023 Author Share Posted February 16, 2023 Ah, thanks! Hahaha....shall report this as a bug then! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MikeTO Posted February 16, 2023 Share Posted February 16, 2023 4 hours ago, Pep75 said: Ah, thanks! Hahaha....shall report this as a bug then! I think lots of people have reported this. Pep75 1 Quote Download a free manual for Publisher 2.4 from this forum - expanded 300-page PDF My system: Affinity 2.4.2 for macOS Sonoma 14.4.1, MacBook Pro 14" (M1 Pro) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff NathanC Posted February 28, 2023 Staff Share Posted February 28, 2023 Hi @Pep75 apologies on the late reply, I've bumped one of the existing issues with regard to this problem with your report. 🙂 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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