why does my computer say i have insufficient memory?

[Saph-D]

I’m not positive but that may be linked to the ‘working’ memory as such, it does have a techy name but I have no idea what it is.

Have you tried closing down other applications running in the background ?

If you right click on the dark blue line at the bottom of the monitor and then click task manager, it will have a few tabs at the top which show you how many programs are running, how much cpu process they are taking up and the ‘physical memory’ ( thats what I was thinking of up there ) available and being used.

It may help, possibly, perhaps ? 🙂

Saph

[Gavin MacMillan]

Hi Lorraine, depending what you want the jpeg for the best bet is normally to reduce the size way way down in signlab and then export. A pain if you want dimension on it but otherwise of for viewing on the screen. Coreldraw tends to handle these things a bit better if you need it full size. You can also reduce the res, but I find physical size on the screen easier.

Hope this helps…. if it’s for a proof and you have 7 or later you can publish as pdf, this normally works fine?

G

[Lorraine Clinch]

Hi Saph, Gavin for your replies. Gavin, you had the answer, vehicle outline at full size, whizzed it down to Corgi size and it went immediately, so thanks!

[Gavin MacMillan]

Your very welcome 😀

[Rod Young]

quote Lorraine Clinch:

I’ve just tried exporting a vector image as a jpeg out of Signlab, but get the error message ‘insufficient memory’.
As the computer has loads of space left, and I’m a bit dim with the inner workings of a computer, can anyone tell me what I need to do please?

Compared to an image, vector art takes relatively little memory. However, exporting line art to a jpeg is like using the Transform menu >> Render to Bitmap tool. Unless you take care to scale down the art and/or reduce the image resolution (when exporting), then SignLab will merrily use the available system memory in creating the jpeg.

As an alternative, I would suggest using File menu >> Publish to PDF. You can create PDF images at high resolution, yet the file size will be remarkably compressed.

Cheers,

Rod at CADlink