Illustrator cs3 unresponsive after live trace

after placing an .psd image into illustrator and using
live trace function, illustrator will only let me save the file. after saving i have to quit
and restart to work on the file again. this process continues on certain lar
ge files. what gives? thanks in advance!

w/ 2gb ram
Not particularly much. Even if AI itself as a 32bit application never uses more than 2GB, it doesn't have it all on your system. You know, operating system and other stuff taking memory, too.... Quite clearly on a heavy live trace with lots of anchor points and paths this could be too much. If it's an option, you might consider a selective approach, i.e. working at lower image resolutions if something is only a large area or by extracting specific features in Photoshop by turning the image into greyscale/ limited color palette images. while there, you may also use selections and convert them into paths, which you then could copy&paste into AI.
Mylenium

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