extremely slow PNG loading

[Tammy Van Boening]

Hi Stuart,

 

I have seen this behavior as well frequently with FM 10, all patched, Win 7-64 bit. Everything is local and I have 500 GB hard drive, with approximately 250GB of that being free space. It's not reproducible from file to file and some files aren't affected at all.  The one time that I have noticed the issue is right after a Windows update and/or an update to my McAfee virus protection software. And to top it off, initially, some files did not have the issue, and then boom, all of a sudden, they did and vise-versa. The files are graphic-laded such as yours and very large (500+ pages with 200+ images) and all the images are PNGs with up to a max of around 900 bytes. I don't have the option at this stage in the game to convert the files and reimport, so I am just stuck, but if anyone else can give insight into this, it would be sincerely appreciated.  It's a real time-killer for me and FWIW, I did not have this issue with the exact same files in FM7 or FM8!

 

TVB

 

 

Tammy Van Boening

Owner/Principal

Spectrum Writing, LLC

www.spectrumwritingllc.com

TammyVB  *AT*  spectrumwritingllc  *DOT*  com

 

 

From: framers-bounces at lists.frameusers.com [mailto:framers-bounces at lists.frameusers.com] On Behalf Of Stuart Rogers
Sent: Thursday, March 26, 2015 5:05 PM
To: 'framers at lists.frameusers.com'
Subject: extremely slow PNG loading

 

Hi Framers,

FM 10 (TCS 3.5), Win 7 64-bit, 16 GB RAM, i7 CPU

I have a two-page file that imports by reference 24 different small PNG files, many of them repeated several times, for a total of 75 images. The PNG files are each about 900 bytes in size, all located in a subfolder of the folder containing the file. When I open this document, FM takes about 5 seconds to display each graphic (5-6 minutes to open the entire file). All files are on a local 180 GB SSD.

I have converted all the PNG files to TIF and reimported into a copy of the file. The entire document opens in about 3 seconds.

Has anyone else noticed this problem with PNG? That format has become my standard output for most purposes, but I'll have to change that if there isn't a fix in FM.

Thanks,




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