Brian, Thanks for the prompt reply. I have reduced the size of the files to 125px and 4" for the shortest side. It worked perfectly. With 33 graphics in the gallery, it now refreshes instantly. DuzKelley
On Thu, Oct 18, 2012 at 10:53 AM, Brian/Support <[email protected]>wrote: > There is no software imposed limit in Legacy to the number of pictures > you can have in one person's gallery but, as you have found, there are > practical limits for speed of response. Our report preview/PDF generator > also has an upper limit of about 1000 images in a single report so a > scrapbook report for a lot of people with a lot of images could run into > that limitation. The PDF generator is third party software so we have no > control over that limitation. > > One of the major factors affecting the speed of the picture gallery is > the size of the images you have linked. Linking a large number of very > large image files will seriously slow down the gallery since such large > images take extra time to load from disk and display. We recommend that > linked images be about 50 - 200 KB. Those are small enough to load and > display quickly and are adequate for on-screen viewing and printing in > reports. If your master image is very large (such as a large TIFF or > Bitmap image) we suggest you make a smaller copy using JPG format and > link that copy in Legacy. > > Brian > Customer Support > > > On 18/10/2012 08:56, Kay Keating wrote: > > Is there any type of limit to the number of pictures that can be stored > in > > the picture gallery? Currently I have 25 or so in one gallery and my > > program seems very sluggish whenever I add to that gallery or move a > > picture. My system has 4G of RAM and I have rebooted to clear the memory, > > but the gallery is still slow to respond. DuzKelley Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages after Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Archived messages from old mail server - before Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp Follow Legacy on Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/LegacyFamilyTree) and on our blog (http://news.LegacyFamilyTree.com). To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp
