Is illustrator running slow because of large file size?

Is my illustrator running slow? I have an i7 3770K, 16gb ram, gtx 660i 2g, h100i, ax1200i and maximus formula v. I'm running dual 24" 1920x1080 monitors. File size is 800x600 pixals with 5 layers and 100+ paths in each layer. Is the program running slow because the file is too big or is there a problem with illustrator?

If you have a internal HD available, you can select it as a scratch disk...
the above dialog is from CS3, but you have something similar in your Preferences file.
If you are running out of disk space, then there's not enough scratch to perform certain ops efficiently and it could slow things down considerably. Just a thought.

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Need to get large file sizes down to downloadable sizes-how?

I am using Compressor 4 and have several professional videos I produced with Final Cut Studio in QuickTime/.MOV format using ProRes 442. They are all 720p and of course, all have large file sizes. I needed to convert them so they are compatible with iTunes as well as Apple devices (AppleTV, iPad/iPod/iPhone, etc). They also need to be downloadable in a reasonable time and I of course want to maintain a quality image. Several of the videos are about an hour long, some a little more.
I an unable to get most of these files to be small enough for practical download and still maintain an acceptable quality. For example:
I have one video (QuickTime rendered from FCPS) that runs 54 minutes. 1280x720, ProRess 422, Linear PCM with a Bit rate of 72.662. The best I seem to be able to get out of compressor is to use the setting options for "HD for Apple Devices (5 Mbs)" which gives me a file that's just over 2Gb. Not bad, and the quality is still very good, but the file size is just too big for people to download. I get reports of people getting estimates of 77 hours to download this one file.
I did try using the setting under Video Sharing Services / Large 540p Video Sharing just to see what it would give me, but it really wasn't that much smaller and the quality was noticeably degraded.
I'm confused as to what to do about this. I have downloaded things from iTunes before that are good quality, about an hour and their file sizes are simply bnot this big.
Can anyone give me some advice? Thank you. Grateful for anything you can offer.
MC

If you're not concerned with precise average bitrate, use h.264 codec, set bitrate to "automatic" and use the quality slider. Be sure to have "keyframes" on "automatic"; every 24 frames or so makes h.264 quite inefficient and is only useful for live-streaming, where you want people to be able to resynchronise as quickly as possible. Having multi-pass enabled might help, but I'm not sure what it does when using constant-quality encoding.
Do a test-encoding of a representative clip of maybe about rwo minutes or so, play with the quality slider and see how far down you can go and still be satisfied with the quality. Using "automatic" bitrate uses as many bits to encode each frame as is necessary to get the required quality, and file sizes will vary depending on the type of material. Complex textures and high motion will use more bits, still frames and slow pans will use very little.
A light chroma-channel denoising may help improve perceived quality, as may very light sharpening in case you scaled down the material.
If you're still not happy with the bitrate vs. quality tradeoff, try reducing the resolution, but generally you should get 720p down to around 2.5 to 3.0 Mbps with adequate quality.
On the other hand, If someone needs 77 hours to download 2 GB, they have another problem anyway. That sounds like a 56k modem connection. What's he doing trying to download HD content anyway?
Bernd

Facebook application grow large file size

Why facebook applications grow larger and larger file size. What can I do. Since this program is to use the file size is big time. I use facebook version 4.0.3 on iphone4 run on iOS 5.0.1.
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apache_logs=$ORACLE_HOME/Apache/Apache/logs
webcache_logs=$ORACLE_HOME/webcache/logs
sysman_logs=$ORACLE_HOME/sysman/log
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also_j2ee=$ORACLE_HOME/j2ee/home/log/home_default_island_1
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for wfile in `ls $webcache_logs/*_log`
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for sfile in `ls $sysman_logs/*log`
do
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          >$sfile
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done
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do
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done
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Does FW CS5 Mac crap out with large file sizes like CS4 did? It seems like files over a 4-5MB tend to be flaky... Is there an optimum file size? I'm running a Mac Tower 2.93 GHz Quad Core, w 8 GB RAM

Why not download the trial version and find out?

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Just downloaded Battlestar Galactica season 2 and the video stalls at full screen. Do not have this problem with previous Battlestar Galactica shows and movies that I have downloaded in the past.
I notice the File Size and Total Bit Rate of the new shows are three times greater in size than the shows I've downloaded in the past.
Using the utility ativity monitor, I notice I'm maxing out my CPU when I go to full screen which I think is causing my video stall.
I also notice that now my previous TV show downloads don't fully fill my screen like that did before the new downloads.
I hope someone might know how I can get my TV shows back to working normal at full screen and why the new TV shows file sizes are larger than before.
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Ive recently purchased web premium 5.5 and Im trying to save files in jpeg and png format in Photoshop and Im getting unexpectedly large file sizes, for example I save a simple logo image 246x48 which consists of only 3 basic colours and when I save it as a jpeg quality 11 it reports the file size in the finder as 61.6k, I save it as a png file and its 60.2k also I cropped the image to 190x48 and saved it as a png and the file size is actually larger at 61.9k saving as a jpeg at quality 7 the files size is a still relatively large 54k.
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Thanks I had considered that but all my old files are reporting the correct files sizes I have been experimenting and fireworks saves the file at png 24 at 2.6k and jpegs at 5.1k, but I don't really want to have to save the files twice once cut from the comp in photoshop and again in fireworks juggling between the two applications is a bit inconvenient even with just one file but especially when you have potentially hundreds of files to save.
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4.2.3/.4 Data load wizard - slow when loading large files

Hi,
I am using the data load wizard to load csv files into an existing table. It works fine with small files up to a few thousand rows. When loading 20k rows or more the loading process becomes very slow. The table has a single numeric column for primary key.
The primary key is declared at "shared components" -> logic -> "data load tables" and is recognized as "pk(number)" with "case sensitve" set to "No".
While loading data, these configuration leads to the execution of the following query for each row:
select 1 from "KLAUS"."PD_IF_CSV_ROW" where upper("PK") = upper(:uk_1)
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Please provide a solution or workaround for the data load wizard to work with large files in an acceptable amount of time.
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Klaus

Nevertheless, a bulk loading process is what I really like to have as part of the wizard.
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create a procedure (in a Package) to bulk process it.
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I updated from Photoshop CC to CC 2014. When working with ultra large format scans (more than 3 Gigapixel) the Spot Healing Brush set on Content-Aware takes unusually long (5-7 seconds for retouching small dust spots). In Photoshop CC the same Content-Aware Spot Healing Brush actions were executed instantly without any perceived delays once I've pointed a source for the Clone Stamp tool (which I found weird but doing so really made the Spot Healing Brush faster on large files). On smaller images it's still very fast on CC 2014 but not on the 3.5 GPixel images I'm working on at the moment.
I know there have been some changes/improvements for the Content-Aware tools but in this case it's seriously hitting the performance. I haven't noticed any other slow-downs in processing performance with the update.
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My performance settings are the same for CC and CC 2014.
I assume the problem is introduced by the changes/improvements of the Content-Aware tools and on normal file sizes it might not matter for the user if the operation takes 25 or 200 ms. But on large files it seriously slows down the retouching work.
So far I've been doing as you suggested, using CC for that type of work. But as it takes about 90 minutes to save these huge files and AFAIK Photoshop CC and CC 2014 cannot be run as separate instances simultaneously it's quite inconvenient not being able to use CC 2014 for some other type of work while CC is saving the file.
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I wrote this small java program which reduced the size up to 111KB !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! (wow what a bug that must have been!!!)
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import java.io.BufferedReader;
import java.io.BufferedWriter;
import java.io.FileNotFoundException;
import java.io.FileReader;
import java.io.FileWriter;
import java.io.IOException;
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private static final String DELETE_STRING = "                           <?templateDesigner StyleID aped3?>";
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G'day
This is just an observation more than anything else.
The performance of the release version of CFB has been much better than the beta versions, which is heartening. During the beta I had to have as much background functionality as possible switched off, eg: workspace rebuilding, syntax checking, etc to even get work done, but on the release version I've been able to leave everything on, and it's been OK thusfar.
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G'day
This is just an observation more than anything else.
The performance of the release version of CFB has been much better than the beta versions, which is heartening. During the beta I had to have as much background functionality as possible switched off, eg: workspace rebuilding, syntax checking, etc to even get work done, but on the release version I've been able to leave everything on, and it's been OK thusfar.
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Unfortunately I do not have CFEclipse installed on this machine to compare performance.
Now... I guess I expect the thing to slow up eventually as files grow, but as it currently stands I'm expecting to start getting frustrated with having to wait around for CFB to catch up with me, if it slows down much more. I speculate this file will grown to be another 500-odd lines long yet.
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Is it best to upload hd movie to iPhoto or iMovie? iMovie seems to store the movie in much larger files - presumably this is preferable as a larger file is better quality?

Generally it is if you're comparing identical compressors & resolutions but there's something else happening here. If you're worried about quality degrading; check the original file details on the camera (or card) either with Get Info or by opening in QuickTime and showing info. You should find the iPhoto version (reveal in a Finder) is a straight copy. You can't really increase image quality of a movie (barring a few tricks) by increasing file size but Apple editing products create a more "scrub-able" intermediate file which is quite large.
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Hi,
Performance of forms was a known problem in Reader / Acrobat 7. There were afew things you can do to help but it can't be fixed other than by upgrading to version 8.
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http://partners.adobe.com/public/developer/en/pdf/lc_designer_perf_guidelines.pdf
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www.indigopacific.com

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