Layout is misbehaving on my Mac Book Pro.
(Mid 2012, running Mojave 10.14.6 (18G4032) processor 2.3 GHz Intel Core i7 8 GB 1600 MHz DDR3 Graphics cards NVIDIA GeForce GT 650M 1 GB Intel HD Graphics 4000 1536 MB)
It is very laggy, has strange lines on the screen which disappear if I zoom in, slow to select tools, generally very frustrating.
I should add that my MBP is very full, I need to do some file storage management, but it worked fine with SU19.
Attached dropbox link to video shows the issues, you donât see the spinning wheel on the video but I can assure you it spins! A lot! Dropbox - File Deleted
Layout file also attached. Help!! test.layout (5.3 MB)
Is this LO file only supposed to have images and no SketchUp file?
The lines you were referring to in your video were a strange graphic issue that was supposed to have been fixed with 2020.
Iâm not seeing any problems with moving images around on the page although my PC wasnât thrilled about the .heic image. I converted it to .jpg and replaced it and that works fine, too.
I expect what you are seeing is that your graphics card canât redraw the imageas quickly as it needs to. There were some performance improvements in 2020 that may give you better results. If you really are butting heads with your graphics card which is what it looks like, you might try setting display resolution to Low. As another way around the issue, you might try making very low res copies of the images to use for page setup. Once you have things arranged as you want, you can replace the low res images with the high res for export.
all good thanks, I thought it would be you on the case for me!
This is Layout 20, version 20.0.362. I havenât tried converting the .HEICs to jpgs, but having said that even with screen shots or jpgs it is very unresponsive.
I wondered if it was anything to do with the graphics card, but it has worked absolutely fine previously, even with huge SU models.
I have tried the same file on my iMac, and whilst initially it responded faster, it then slowed down. Iâl do some more testing tomorrow, change the photo file formats and see if it makes any difference.
Thanks for your help, as always. Hope you are OK and surviving lockdown? Are you guys locked down? Crazy times eh?
Hi Colin, shows what I know eh?! In my mind itâs just 4 photos! I often use lots of images though, never had this problem before. Iâll swap them out with lower res pictures and see what happens. Best, regards, Sally
I think it becomes a bit more responsive when I set the Display Resolution to Low in Document Setup>Paper. The .HEIC image doesnât display at all on my PC, and I donât have any app that would open it. @DaveR, what did you use?
Hi Anssi, those files are how photos download directly from my iPhone X. If I put them into âphotosâ on my Mac and then export them they turn into Jpgs. An Apple thing!
Thank you Colin, a lesson learned. A lot of my Layout files are much bigger but werenât as laggy, so is it more about the number of pixels than the size of the file? Many thanks for the tutorial, very useful.
I tested that, and being Low didnât make a noticeable difference, but setting LayOut to open in low resolution made a dramatic difference. Even the huge image file worked well enough.
I found that option on the Layout app itself, but when I was looking for it I initially looked on the specific file info for that file. I have âstationery padâ as an option. Do you know what this is?
Thanks for sorting this out for me, much appreciated. Sally
Itâs an old and probably underused feature of OS X/macOS a bit like a template. If you make it a stationery pad, it will open as Untitled and youâll have to save it as a new name.
Edit: it adds " copy" to the end of the file now, Iâm sure it used to open as an Untitled document.
thank you, who knew?! Apart from you! I shall give it a try and see what happens. Does it offer anything that a personally created âmy templateâ doesnât?
It doesnât depend on the programmer writing template features, it works in almost any program that can open a file. The program doesnât have to be open either, so you can set a file as stationery at any time from the Finder.
As SketchUp and Layout do have a built in template system, itâs not that much use for them. It can still be useful though if you have a file you donât want to overwrite and want to try multiple versions of it. Each time you open it, youâll be opening a copy. Or you might want a template just for one project without putting it in your main templates folder.
Stationery files used to open as Untitled before Apple brought in the versioning autosave stuff. I actually preferred that as you were forced to name it when you saved instead of it already having a name. So now if you open a stationery pad file called âMy Templateâ and save it, it will be called something like âMy Template Copyâ.
I just looked it up and Autosave started with OS X 10.7 Lion in 2011, so itâs not that new. Stationery goes back to before OS X to at least System 7 from 1991, 29 years ago. Iâve only been using Macs for 20 years, so I was using Atari computers at that time.
Funny story, or two. My first use of a Mac OS was in October 1987, while visiting Apple Computer UK, doing an interview to try to work in Tech Support. The interview was informal, and went ok, so afterwards my potential future manager let me use a Mac to write up my CV.
I did get the job, largely because I was expert in Apple II, and the tech support guys knew more about Lisa and Macintosh (this predates the time when Apple paid a lot of money to have the rights to say âMacâ). But, I didnât know Mac OS at all, and still had to take phone calls about Mac questions. One early on call went like this:
Apple Dealer: âWhatâs the current version of Finder?â
Me, to colleagues: âWhatâs the current version of Finder?â
Colleagues: â5.5â
Me to dealer: â5.5â
hang upâŚ
Me to colleagues: âWhatâs Finder?â