Windows, Affinity Publisher v2.6.0, Not Responding ... normally

[Kelly Bellis]

Launching Pub2 seems normal with initialization, fonts, data, loading, etc. just fine. 

Opening and Closing an existing .afpub project

small-sized - behavior seems normal

medium-sized - behavior seems normal

large-sized - last page in the project that I had previously worked on loaded, but remained blurred while all of the other 50-something page thumbnails remained white. After waiting for more than 3.5 minutes, the pages all seemed to have been loaded and could be navigated to / from using the page thumbnails as per normal. 3.5 minutes to load this project is not normal. If impatience steps in and I try closing the application before all loading of the .afpub  project has had time to fully load, then the Not Responding message can be seen in the upper left margin.

I tried looking for some place within the user interface where I could try clearing temporary cache or its equivalent, but was unsuccessful.

Thanks very much for any help.

Kelly

 

 

 

 

Edited March 17 by Kelly Bellis
accidentally attached unrelated files, deleted them

[mopperle]

Where do you store your files, locally or on a cloud storage?

[Kelly Bellis]

Nothing in the cloud; all on local machine.

[mopperle]

Hi Kelly. what you can try to do: afpub files get bigger and bigger while working on them. So open your "large-sized" document and save it under a different name. This usually reduces the size. And it gives you the advantage of have multiple versions of a document.

I assume, that in case you use a lot of picture, you have linked and not embedded them.

[Kelly Bellis]

Yes, the Prefer Linked option is used for the default document setup, and yes, there's a heavy use of images.

There is some file-size savings, though it seems by not much; however, this recent test did indeed greatly improve load time back to normal when I opened it just now - thank you very much for your help!