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Hey there

what is the better alternative handling a lot of photos in Publisher at the moment?

I do a photo yearbook for my daughter with probably a few hundred photos (I dont know exactly yet how much it will be).
I am not through with it yet (doing November at the moment) and I see that when you open the document, Publisher needs a lot of time to open all the pages (e.g. load the linked photos)
In the meantime the PC reacts sluggish for minutes.

When all is loaded there is no performance problem anymore, but during loading the document there is no working possible

I wonder though, if it would be better if I embedd the photos instead of linking them... any suggestions to that?
Thanks

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It's a trade off. Small file size with linked files and it takes time to open or embed them and it may take a few seconds to open but there it is.

You MIGHT try doing a save as and then changing the links to embedded. Then load it and see what you have gained

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20 minutes ago, Rick G said:

It's a trade off. Small file size with linked files and it takes time to open or embed them and it may take a few seconds to open but there it is.

You MIGHT try doing a save as and then changing the links to embedded. Then load it and see what you have gained

there you have a point I not thought about.

I'll try that, and make a copy before doing so

thanks

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1 hour ago, Pixelkobold said:

...When all is loaded there is no performance problem anymore, but during loading the document there is no working possible

 

17 minutes ago, Rick G said:

It's a trade off. Small file size with linked files and it takes time to open or embed them and it may take a few seconds to open but there it is.

Serif should asymmetrically load ("lazy load") images. It would speed up overall load times.

Under the current manner of loading a document, I would still leave them linked myself.

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Not sure what the total size of all the images are but embedding them may also make the APub document sluggish and extremely large.

If that is the case you may want to consider making a copy of all the finalised images so far, then replace them with low-resolution versions to use as placeholders until you are finalising the document then just copy back the original images.

By using the same file names and folder for the low-res images changing over should be easy

There are many free programs that provide a quick and easy way to batch generate the low-res versions of your existing files if you don't currently have one.

 

Similarly, if you (temporarily) just move the finalised images to a new folder, APub will automatically generate low-res versions but you may get fed up with all the "missing images" warning messages.

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5 hours ago, carl123 said:

Not sure what the total size of all the images are but embedding them may also make the APub document sluggish and extremely large.

If that is the case you may want to consider making a copy of all the finalised images so far, then replace them with low-resolution versions to use as placeholders until you are finalising the document then just copy back the original images.

By using the same file names and folder for the low-res images changing over should be easy

There are many free programs that provide a quick and easy way to batch generate the low-res versions of your existing files if you don't currently have one.

 

Similarly, if you (temporarily) just move the finalised images to a new folder, APub will automatically generate low-res versions but you may get fed up with all the "missing images" warning messages.

yes that would be a good work around. I use JPEGMini, which is awesome for such jobs. I give it a try

Anyway, as soon all the pages are completely loaded (which takes a few minutes when you have linked photos), the publisher runs smooth.

I used to use InDesign with photobook projects similar to this in count of pictures, and never good such issues when loading a document. (though I realize Publisher is in its first version while ID is in v14 or sth like this.)
so probably this could be a posting for the bug or request area?

 

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I don't see a point in linking. I'd like all images of a design in the file. You move the file, you won't get all your images unlinked.

Maybe if you created a huge number of documents, 100's and they all stay on your computer, linking would be a good idea.

Even with software that has much larger file sizes, like Final Cut Pro X, where you can get libraries going over 100GB, embedding is better. 

In Affinity, I always embed. Just working on a 60+ page document. 

Not the slightest bit sluggish, as long as you are using JPEGs. 

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Linking (and changing the files externally by other editors  when needed, so they update automatically in many documents where they are linked) is an amazing neck saver for things like card/board games, and many types of large and complex projects. Specially useful when you need an update to replicate to all documents. IMO, embedding has its advantages, linking has its own ones. I would need them both.

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  • 2 weeks later...
8 hours ago, ArtKelz said:

How are you building your yearbook?  flowing in text and photos or building every entry manually?

err... I don't know exactly what you want to know.
I usually put up picture frames, arrange them and then fill them with photos.
If I need text I put a textframe there and fill it

anyway, 
after finishing my first yearbook in APub, I see in both ways (embedding and linking) some advantages.
I think its just a personal thing which way you use photos and so on

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