PDF form slow generation

Hello
I'm using Adobe LiveCycle Designer ES Version 8.2.3.x.
I developed a form of contract consisting of 4 pages. Also this form contains one logo on each page and some text with dynamic text elements (about 15 totally). Unfortunately the PDF form is generated too slowly. I tried to find which form element was a reason of such slow performance and didn't find it. It seems that the form is generated so slowly, because it's too long (if 4 pages can be considered to be long form). Has anybody faced to such problem?
Thank you in advance!

You may be facing a different issue all together ...to validate can you save the form from Designer as an XDP and tell us what the size of the file is?
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