PUB97: Can't Preview Web Publication with Large Picture (154671)

SYMPTOMS

If you insert a picture frame, OLE frame, or picture hot spot that is larger than your publication's page, Publisher may fail when you try to publish the page to a folder or preview the page in your Web browser.

When you click the Preview Web Site or Publish Web Site To Folder commands on the File menu, Publisher may stop responding. You may eventually receive one of several error messages stating something similar to the following:

Windows is low on Memory

The same effect may also occur if you have a publication page that consists of multiple frames that overlap to give a total area larger than the page size.

CAUSE

When you preview or publish a publication as a Web site, Publisher converts everything that is not a text frame to a graphic in the CompuServe GIF format. To do this, Publisher converts all non-text elements to approximately 100 dots-per-inch (dpi) bitmaps and uses the GIF graphic filter to convert these bitmaps to .gif files. A larger graphic will require more memory for successful conversion.

Publisher also converts everything that is covered by a picture hot spot into a .gif file.

If this conversion requires more memory than Windows can provide, the GIF filter will fail.

The size of picture that you will be able to view on your computer depends on the amount of memory and disk space you have available on your computer; that is, the more disk space and memory your computer has the larger the picture can be.

RESOLUTION

Before you publish or preview your publication, click Design Checker on the Tools menu. The design checker will check for objects that may make a page take a long time to download, including large graphics or groups of overlapping objects.

If you must have a very large picture frame on your publication, use the crop tool to crop out all parts of the frame that extend off the edge of the page. Remember, however, that a Web page that contains a large graphic will take a long time to download, and the readers of your Web page may click the Stop Downloading button in their Web browsers before they see your picture.