MEMORY PROBLEMS

[Anonymous]

IN PLOTMAKER.....

GETTING THE MESSAGE - 'NOT ENOUGH MEMORY TO COMPLETE OPERATION'. WHICH WOULD SEEM STRAIGHT FORWARD EXPLANATION EXCEPT THAT IT SHOULDN'T BE AN ISSUE WITH THE WORKSTATION THAT I AM USING.

THE LAYOUT BOOK CONTAINS 3 LAYOUTS. 4 JPG IMAGES APPROX 500KB EACH PAGE AND THE ERROR COMES UP WHEN THE IMAGES REGENERATE.

PLOTMAKER IS THE ONLY APPLICATION THAT I HAVE OPEN.

ANY IDEAS?

DUAL 3GHZ XEON PROCESSOR
2GB RAM
80GB HD
QUADRO FX 3400 (256MB)
AC 9

[Anonymous]

Quiet please, there's people asleep over here...

Are you definitely using PM9? You get this message if you try to copy elements from PM9 back to PM3.1 (for AC8.1), even if it is only a single line. Haven't had the message otherwise

[Anonymous]

yep...PM9

virtual memory adjustments not helping.....

[Rob]

yep, I have had the same problem and I think when the used memory hits 2GB it goes to sh..ts. I was working on presentation with plans and an image underlay (the file itself was 300MB) but just redrawing the sheet took some 500MB of extra memory (??). I think PM has a serious problem with images handling as the file size goes ballistic as well.

[Laszlo Nagy]

adam wrote:
IN PLOTMAKER.....

GETTING THE MESSAGE - 'NOT ENOUGH MEMORY TO COMPLETE OPERATION'. WHICH WOULD SEEM STRAIGHT FORWARD EXPLANATION EXCEPT THAT IT SHOULDN'T BE AN ISSUE WITH THE WORKSTATION THAT I AM USING.

THE LAYOUT BOOK CONTAINS 3 LAYOUTS. 4 JPG IMAGES APPROX 500KB EACH PAGE AND THE ERROR COMES UP WHEN THE IMAGES REGENERATE.

PLOTMAKER IS THE ONLY APPLICATION THAT I HAVE OPEN.

ANY IDEAS?

DUAL 3GHZ XEON PROCESSOR
2GB RAM
80GB HD
QUADRO FX 3400 (256MB)
AC 9

How much are you zoomed into the Layout when you try to regenerate?
In older versions of PlotMaker (I don't know if it is still the case) when you regenerated the preview of the Layout, it generated a bitmap the size of which was based on the current resolution and the zoom factor.
So if your resolution is 1280x1024 and you zoomed in so you see about one-fifth of your image horizontally and one-fifth of it vertically, the preview of that image at that zoom level would be about 6000x5000 pixels which needs a lot of memory to regenerate.

[Anonymous]

The amount zoomed makes no difference......change images to bitmap preview, still no joy. Frames only works but isnt a great solution.

I have reduced images resolution to get LBK file size down to 1.75mb which works...just.

Maybe pagemaker might be a better option in this case.

I have had the same issue as Rob with image underlays...huge file sizes. not worth doing.

[Rob]

Maybe pagemaker might be a better option in this case.

I have exported all parts to pdfs and then fiddled in Photoshop without problems.

I've learnt my lesson - when there is a serious work with vector/bitmap composites forget about PM, it's not efficient.