OK so why is illustrator running so slow on your machine.
Maybe just some documents So let's talk about the major things will start at the top.
The most probably common thing to slow you down is etting kind of pixel a fix or Ruster affixed to Victor
like this graphic here made.
OK.
Some compound shapes and I ended in a glow.
OK.
Which makes this kind of like we have loads of top chef who kind of look at the same time and move it
canai with a back balancing ball of dún appears like it's struggle's right and this is a pretty good
machine.
And so if you've had lots of drop shadows to things and basically you're going to there's two things
you can do.
You can make it run faster by going but nothing selected We're going to have fixed go to this document
roster savings and in here Mine is set to 300 PBI which is awesome for print but it stresses my machine
out.
If I switch to 70 to click OK.
Nothing really changes and my document is not worse quality.
It will print Twiss.
OK but now if I click off and drag it it kind of just works faster because it's only redrawing it at
a lower resolution.
When I go out to print I need to make sure sending out a PDA before making it to a pig is going to make
sure I tune it back up OK because it is essentially Victor and I just need to do that again right at
the end.
Oh wait for it.
OK and it goes through all of its beaches and could take a long time but now if I make a PBF it will
be that great quality.
Haven't lost quality in that go so yet.
That's kind of one of the easy ones and the other one is they say you've got this graphic and it's just
use a lot.
OK and it's just causing you drama Movietone you move or resize it you came to Slik that all k and go
to this one that sees an object and go to Rast arise.
Now this is a one way street.
OK if I click on roster size and say actually I want this to be 300 PBI is of great quality and make
sure its the size you need it to be.
I made it quite big.
You might make it even bigger.
You've got a big version of it but when it's being roster size is now going to be pixel's eventually
OK.
And you notice that sometimes I've made it clear Hamas is going to wipe Boxer on the outside which is
not fun enough to clip it out again but I've lost a few things AK transparency's gone but at least now
if I zoom in I can start to see the pixels.
OK so no effect anymore any more bots.
Now it is super quick and easy to move around to rotate.
It's not trying to like do those effects every single time.
Case of rotating it around.
I'll do this often.
Keep a back up version of it all.
Victory in good game but maybe in your kind of data they use.
Just use the cross to rise version.
The big thing can be false and you might be you might like me kind of freelanced your way around the
world and eventually ended up with this huge part of fonts and you like you keep installing them every
time you get a new Mac.
The trouble with phones is that it slows down your whole system.
OK so what you might want to do is use Mac has font book.
I have no idea what PC has and bought just uninstall the phones you know using.
OK.
Especially if there are some bad phones if you've got like a dodgy cactus shaped later font.
I don't know.
It has some weird font and it's got some problems in it.
Your machine spends ages when it loads programs.
Try to figure that out and sort it out.
So go through.
Just be super clean with your font installs and any dodgy ones just get rid of or uninstall them.
Yeah fonts can be a big clue on your whole entire system.
Actually quickly I'm going to show you.
So phonebook is what Mac uses.
Casey can go through and go through into slate all the fonts you don't want and get rid of them.
K or fonts and just have a little look like do.
I've got three hundred and eighty one and my runs OK.
Check.
Leave a comment.
See how many I want to see who's got the most k and always see screenshots as well.
You don't install too many fonts.
Another thing can happen all things that can slow you down is a make and you document is the way you
bring in images.
So if you bring in file and go to place and or bring in an image format exercise files can bring in
a bike.
This option here linking or not linking.
So by default I'm pretty sure it doesn't link.
Can you have to check the known options in the bottom here.
And a little unbid case if I ended a file K vs. bringing in the same image and linking to it.
There's pros and cons gate linking to it.
The pro is that it will run faster.
Everything runs faster when it's linked.
OK the con is that if I send this Illustrator file to somebody I need to make sure I send the image
with it.
OK this one is actually bitted in and will if I see an Illustrator file it will be there.
OK this one here.
It'll open up Alastor and say hey I'm missing that file with the dagger.
OK so that's one of the drawbacks and the what you can do to fix that.
Say you've got lots of linked images like this guy.
You can just go to a file now and go to package whereas package I can never find it.
It's right there in front me.
OK on package and that will will save the document and you'll give it a name and we'll just gather up
you illustrate a file all the funds that you've used and all the images that can be a handy way of doing
it.
So link rather than in bed.
The other thing to check is up the top here.
Got the rocket ship a GPS enabled and that just means you've got a good enough graphics card in your
computer that is helping out.
OK you wouldn't turn this off.
There's a reason to turn it off.
Now what you want to do though is if you've got a machine that's maybe a bit old you might want to update
your drivers.
That can sometimes fix that.
So if you if this is disabled you can try and fix it and by if I go to Illustrator preferences.
OK and we're going to go to performance and if you are on a PC go to it.
Preferences performance and have a look.
So this is untacked K and what it says is not available.
OK it's you can see it on here.
I have up to date and graphics card and it's pretty good.
OK it's good enough.
It's like Greg's kind of working anyway and what you can do is it's not super easy but you can then
come out of illustrator so it's nothing to do the illustrator really is you can go into your system
preferences on a Mac on a PC I think it's a control panel.
Find your video card and see if the drivers are up to date and if not go see if you can download them
from the people that make it.
My you saw that was OK it might be invidia But yeah that's that's hard to do and often doesn't fix it.
It's done that for me before I gave up my graphics card and it's kind of like hey we can use you.
And it just runs faster.
The other thing you can do and it's simple enough.
It's updating the RAM in your computer.
So RAM is King OK.
And you want a minimum of 8 gigs of RAM and as much as you can get.
And the thing about RAM is often on PCs it's really easy to upgrade.
They won't cost you very much.
You can go from full gigs to 8 gigs or 16 or 32 pretty cheaply and that kind of gives your computer
the kind of grunt you need for especially like those drop shadows in Illustrator case a RAM upgrade.
And I'm kind of a half Tinker and I can do it myself.
Not very good but it was Ram and the PC is easy enough to unscrew it and pick it out and put the other
one in.
On a Mac it's near impossible.
You can take it to people to get it done but RAM is the thing when you're buying a computer.
Get out of it.
Another thing that can really cause problems is your harddrive.
OK so and if you say so you've got 500 megabytes harddrive and it's got zero or two gigabytes left.
OK I said megabyte.
So you got 500 gigabytes of space and you've only got a couple of gigabytes left.
OK that is just not enough.
It needs like things like Photoshop and Illustrator they need about half your hard drive empty.
It needs a big chunk of space to work and let's say that you don't have that what you can do.
You can use an external drive.
You can go to Illustrator permits is getting pretty nifty here.
This is the last one.
If your noodle is buzzing you can skew things.
I catch myself sometimes getting Nuti k bye if you like me.
Illustrated CC preferences plugins and scritched disks and bytes on it.
Preferences differ on a PC.
And here my scratch disk is just my start up drive.
Ok what you can do is if you go out and buy computers a bit old and your hard drive is the old tape
drive one and it's just full up what you can do.
You can say illustrator I want you to use my external drive.
And what will happen is if I had an external drive plugged in it would show in this list and I can click
on it.
OK the pros for it is is that if I get a really good harddrive.
What you are looking for is an SSD drive a solid state drive OK and get as big as you can afford and
often those connections are really fast and it will speed up illustrator.
The trought the drawback is and it's a big one as you need to carry that harddrive around all the time
otherwise you know when you're using illustrator it's not going to find it.
It will snap back to using primary K so is that a.
Yeah it is.
I do.
I use to do a lot of my old PC laptop.
It was really old.
I couldn't afford upgrade it.
I bought a harddrive and changed you know change the scritched on every Adobe application and it rains
ran like twice as fast.
It was awesome.
Yeah there is.
If you've got any questions drop me a comment.
That is how to speed up illustrator.
None of those things help.
Might be time to buy a new computer.
All right on to the next video.