ok I read that to mean nothing else open apart from xara - but re-reading you may well be right

also it depends on what document[s] and what size - I'm thinking 'image-rich' for acorn is a web document - for me that would be a drawing document and the bitmaps would be likely be larger in absolute pixel size, not that uncommon to have them right up in the 10,000 range which equates to an A3 print at 600dpi; and a few of those slows things down in my experience when opening a document with them in