Speed problems

[William Fox Talbot]

I have an i7 and 16 gig of RAM. Bizarrely I am having speed problems with saving PDF files and many other situations, is this normal? (I'm talking minutes to save) I am finding it to be far slower than PS. What is going on? The ad boasts about speed and work flow???

[firstdefence]

What size does the PDF come out at?

Windows or Mac

[William Fox Talbot]

What do you mean by what size exactly? Windows. I am finding the whole experience to be very slow compared to PS is this normal? It's almost intolerable. Thanks ahead.

[MrCourtney]

Open your saved PDF in WIndows Explorer and see what the file size is.

[firstdefence]

Was just trying to gauge whether the PDF was large, image heavy etc so render time to PDF would be longer, a 1 MB PDF would take less time than a 200MB PDF to render. What settings do you have in the Preferences: Performance tab

[William Fox Talbot]

First defense, The file could be up to 100 meg for printing. This is no problem in PS. I find in general AP to be very slow in many situations compared to PS. Is this your experience also? I am certain there must be something wrong with the program or my computer?

[Granddaddy]

There is a discussion of very slow PDF export in AFPub at

https://forum.affinity.serif.com/index.php?/topic/90388-publisher-pdf-file-size-and-export-time-questions/

No suggestions have been forthcoming as to why on my relatively fast machine it takes 8 minutes to export a PDF file while at Serif it takes 20 seconds.