extremely slow PNG loading

Mon Mar 30 11:36:18 PDT 2015

Hi All,

Yep, I am very aware of IrfanView and it has been great for my personal use, but Jack, you hit the nail right on the head. I tried and tried to use the Help to figure out some stuff and gave up out of sheer frustration. I didn't mind experimenting on my personal images, but for a client? Uh, no way. I would have to make a backup of every image first to be on the safe side and some are pretty elaborate with data setups that I needed for specific images. The timing issue, no matter which way I slice it, becomes the limiting factor. 

Thanks all. It helps to have experienced folks like you validate this kind of stuff.

TVB

Tammy Van Boening

Owner/Principal

Spectrum Writing, LLC

tammyvb at spectrumwritingllc.com

www.spectrumwritingllc.com

303-840-1755

From: Jack DeLand [mailto:jackdeland at comcast.net] 
Sent: Monday, March 30, 2015 9:43 AM
To: Shmuel
Cc: Tammy Van Boening; framers
Subject: Re: extremely slow PNG loading

Irfanview is terrific for lots of graphic manipulations. It also has the worst Help file I have ever seen. I offered to do one for Irfan, but he refused.

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From: "Shmuel" <shmuelw1 at gmail.com>
To: "Tammy Van Boening" <tammyvb at spectrumwritingllc.com>, "framers" <framers at lists.frameusers.com>
Sent: Monday, March 30, 2015 11:20:38 AM
Subject: Re: extremely slow PNG loading

You could convert all the graphic files in a few minutes with IrfanView ($12 for commercial use). As far as reinserting the graphics, you could save the files as MIF and change the extension with a text editor. This should take another few minutes. Total time should be under an hour. 

I never tried this, so test it before you start changing everything.

--
Shmuel Wolfson
Technical Writer
052-763-7133 

On 30-Mar-15 5:14 PM, Tammy Van Boening wrote:

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,

-- 
Stuart Rogers
Technical Communicator
Phoenix Geophysics Limited
3781 Victoria Park Avenue, Unit 3
Toronto, ON, Canada  M1W 3K5
+1 (416) 491-7340 x 325

http://www.phoenix-geophysics.com

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