Thank you for the tip Sarah!
However something is wrong. Terribly and strangely wrong. I made a
folder with all photos, delete all corresponding photos in the stack,
and reimported them as referenced images. The stack is STILL 550 megs!
The standalone contains the following:
12 kb the stack that is the standalone
36 kb a second main stack
628 kb all images in the in the main stack that are the icons and
graphics of the interface
5.8mb the referenced folder that contains the photos in question
2.3mb the executable
This adds up to about 8.8 mb. The main stack has 130 cards all with
the same background group, so without the photos, it should be about
700 kb tops, so the standalone shoud be about 9.5 mb. But it is STILL
550 mb! And it takes 8 seconds to launch, either in Rev or as a
standalone. It saves itself when it closes, which also takes 8
seconds. In both cases the beachball shows up.
I opened a copy of the main stack and deleted all cards but one,
including even the card with the 628 kb of icon images. I saved it,
closed Rev and guess what? The stack file is is still 550 mb!!!!!!!!
The build has nothing included at all, no ask/answer, no database
support, no fonts, absolutely nothing!
Has anyone ever seen anything like this? It is driving me crazy!!!!!!!!!
Cheers,
Lars
by the way, in my original post below, it says 500 megs of images.
that is not even correct (I just lookes at the file size without
thinking.) There are only 5.8 megs of photos, so if I left them in the
main stack, it should still be under 7 mb!
I have a stack with a lot of images, about 500 megs worth. Opening
and
saving the standalone is very slow, so I redid the entire stack and
imported
the same images as referenced images from a separate folder instead
of
simply importing them into the stack. I thought that the stack size
would
drop from 550 megs to 50 megs by having referenced images outside
of the
stack, but it doesn't - it stays the same size and is just as slow.
Also,
when saving the standalone, there seems to be no way to include the
folder
that contains the referenced images, and in the standalone there is
just a
grey rectangle where the images are supposed to be, obviously
because the
wasn't included in the standalone.
What am I doing wrong? Have I misunderstood the concept of
referenced images
completely? I found no answers in the Rev docs and am a little bit
frustrated!
If the size of your standalone hasn't changed, it appears that the
images are still stored as part of the stack.
You will need to clear them all out before building - put empty into
img "MyImage" will work I think.
Then your standalone needs to know where to find the images relative
to your standalone.
In Mac, the standalone is actually buried inside an application
bundle, which is a folder in disguise.
Get into it by right-clicking on the app and choosing "Show Package
Contents".
Drill down in to the folders and you will find your standalone.
Your app needs to look for the images folder relative to this
location. The easiest is probably put the images folder inside the
bundle, so it is hidden from the casual user. If you put it in the
MacOS folder with your standalone, you can use the same references as
for the Windows version.
Cheers,
Sarah
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