Re: Freezing when Publishing
Hi Chill
Couple of things spring to mind:
Are you running out of system ram?
Try running Xara as administrator - right click on the Xara icon and choose run as administrator.
Hope this helps until an expert comes along!
Re: Freezing when Publishing
Hi Nobby
I have admin rights so nope that is not the problem. The RAM might be but I have cut the site down taking out pages that I have added in. Now before these pages went in it published without any problems. Now I can get up to 30% but that is my lot. Might try it on another machine at work that does have more RAM and see if that solves the problem.
Thanks for the thoughts.
Chill
Re: Freezing when Publishing
Welcome to TalkGraphics
Have you optimized your photos (Utilities > Optimize all Images). If you are using a lot of photos, and the resolution is a lot higher than necessary, this can eat up a lot of RAM. Optimizing your images creates more manageable images.
Re: Freezing when Publishing
Post your xar/web file in DropBox and post the link here. Others can test it to see if they experience the same issue.
Re: Freezing when Publishing
Hmm,
I have a good machine with enough RAM for hundreds of decompressed images, but I've seen Xara Web Preview freezing
in any version since version 6 or 7... That may happen with extremely simple single-pagers already. I have long gotten
used to this behaviour (I force close the Internet Explorer preview and simply hit Preview again – it usually works then).
Gary: I don't think that it is a good idea (or should be necessary) to optimize the images before export, as this is a lossy
operation which limits design freedom – if one in the course of the design process decides to increase the size of images
again one will end up with nasty pixelation.
With large files and loads of large images the Exporter should inform the user that the initial export might take a bit for
resizing and compressing images. In all following exports the application should only process elements which have changed,
pretty much the way it is also the case with actual publishing.
Re: Freezing when Publishing
Yes have found this option and optimised the images. Did not make any difference. Apart from the image quality deteriorating a bit. But thanks for the reply.
Re: Freezing when Publishing
Hi Hoja
I'm pretty sure that RAM is the problem. Tried it on another machine with more RAM and I got it uploaded.
Think I will split the site in to two or three separate ones and just link them. Hopefully my machine will be able to cope with the smaller versions.
Cheers for the comment.
Chill
Re: Freezing when Publishing
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Originally Posted by
Egg Bramhill
Post your xar/web file in DropBox and post the link here. Others can test it to see if they experience the same issue.
The site has photographs of photo shoots such as weddings etc so can't make them public. Otherwise I would do this as I would like to see how others got on with it.
Re: Freezing when Publishing
Quote:
Originally Posted by
ChillPerth
I'm pretty sure that RAM is the problem. Tried it on another machine with more RAM and I got it uploaded.
As said, it here happens also with single test files with close to zero content.
The machine in question has 12 gigs of RAM and fast SSD's that should not be the bottleneck.