Limits of a .xar documents

[ernie-f]

Can please anyone give me answers to the following questions:

1. where is the physical memory limit of a .xar document?

2. is there a page limit in the .xar document?

3. is it possible to realize an A4 project (print) with 400, 800 or even 1000 pages with Xara?

4. if yes, what about the performance?

5. in my project there will be about 1500 pictures with 300 ppi resolution. I once read somewhere Xara can only use 1.6 GB RAM for the output, then Xara stops. Is that true? If yes then Xara will be excluded from this project.

Unfortunately I couldn't find any answers neither in the forum nor on the web. I don't have the time and desire to test it and start it over in another program. If someone reads from Xara here, it would be great if you could show the limits of the software and the .xar document files.

Thank you in advance
Ernie

[Acorn]

Can please anyone give me answers to the following questions:

1. where is the physical memory limit of a .xar document?
2. is there a page limit in the .xar document?
3. is it possible to realize an A4 project (print) with 400, 800 or even 1000 pages with Xara?
4. if yes, what about the performance?
5. in my project there will be about 1500 pictures with 300 ppi resolution. I once read somewhere Xara can only use 1.6 GB RAM for the output, then Xara stops. Is that true? If yes then Xara will be excluded from this project.

Unfortunately I couldn't find any answers neither in the forum nor on the web. I don't have the time and desire to test it and start it over in another program. If someone reads from Xara here, it would be great if you could show the limits of the software and the .xar document files.
Thank you in advance
Ernie

Ernie, my opinion:

1. None I have found so assume whatever your device can supply.
2. None I have found.
3. Yes.
4. Performance might require you adjusting the OS Virtual memory. I have found inserts, deletes and moves of text or pages to be adequate.
5. Never come across such a limit. For these images, I would not embed them directly into the Xara document, I would use a Placeholder.

Acorn

[ernie-f]

Hi Acorn,
thanks for the quick answer.
The idea with the placeholder is good, but then I loose the flexibility of editing inside Xara.

[handrawn]

regarding 5 - that might have been a 32bit limit...

[ernie-f]

regarding 5 - that might have been a 32bit limit...

I thought so too. I'll just try.

@Acorn: the placeholder thing is not practical. If you generate a preview it will take forever until Xara has rendered it. Without it you quickly lose the overview.

Here is a screenshot of how my manuscript looks like.



This is my first test in Xara to give them a clear direction. And this on approx. 1000 pages!

[Acorn]

ernie, then make sure your images are on an image layer that is normally hidden. This will improve rendering speed and when you are working or a specific page you can unhide that page.

The nice thing is you do not need to unhide the images when exporting to PDF. I assume this is for print as you specify 300dpi. You can ensure hidden layers are published.

If you are printing, you can always split your document into small sets of 50 pages each. You can then assemble the final output into one large PDF with one of the many PDF utilities available.

Acorn