PC error message

<p>One of my tutorials, written in Word, 69 pages and lots of photos, total disk space less than 8 Mb...<br /> <br /> None of the pictures are being displayed after page 24. instead, I get an error message "There is not enough memory or disk space to display or print the picture' - which is nonsense.<br /> <br /> Does anyone have any idea what is wrong here? And explain to a computer numpty how to fix it?<br>

Thanks</p>

<p>Garry,</p>

<p>For starters, close the Word file. Then, if you have Photoshop, your email program, etc. open at the same time this happens, close them, close all applications which you are using. Then try again with your Word file and let us know how that went.</p>

<p>If the above doesn't help, please let us know what operating system you're using and how much memory you have.</p>

<p>Garry --</p>

<p>* How much video RAM do you have? Might try updating video driver to the latest.<br>

* Check you hard drive space.<br>

* Try rebooting your system.<br>

* Try deleting your *.tmp files.<br>

* Delete your normal.dot file.</p>

<p>Make sure you reboot after any of these steps.</p>

<p >Best Regards,</p>

<p >Jack</p>

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<p>Sounds like an error everyone used to get all the time in the 90s when we were using Windows 95 and 98. I haven't encountered this since using computers with 2GB RAM or more. If you have 512MB RAM or less and are using Windows XP, I can see having this problem from time to time.</p>

<p>Check your RAM by right clicking "My Computer" and then click on "properties". Report to the forum how much RAM you have.</p>

<p>Try taking Hector's advice and close all other applications and retry opening the file in Word. Sometimes you'll get the best results by restarting the PC, closing any applications that are starting up, like Anti-virus, Quicktime, Adobe Updater, and other junk, and then opening Word first thing before opening anything else.</p>

<p>Many thanks for the responses so far.<br>

The PC is running on XP Pro, the C drive has 98Gb of free space and the machine has 3.5Gb of ram. I've just now put it into 'Disk cleanup' mode (haven't run that for a while).<br>

Before posting this question I did try re-booting and closing all applications EXCEPT anti virus, it didn't help.</p>

<p>Did you insert jpeg files into your document? Bear in mind that the uncompressed state of a jpeg can be more than a dozen times the compressed state. So shouldn't we add up all the uncompressed file sizes and compare to available memory? Also I believe an untweaked XP uses only 2GB of RAM.</p>

<p>HC: You make a good point about the JPG compression. Word isn't particularly efficient at handling image files. I would open the first 24 pages and print to PDF, then go back and delete the first 24 pages. Reopen and print the second 24 pages. Repeat for the last 21 pages. Then, in Acrobat, you could put the 3 documents together into 1. Acrobat handles this stuff much better than Word. This is the workaround that I would attempt if I were in your shoes.</p>

<p>Also, I believe XP recognizes somewhere around 3.5GB of RAM regardless of if you have more installed (like 4GB or 6GB). If it's reporting 3.5, then you probably have 4 and it only recognizes 3.5. That is likely NOT your problem. Also, the disk cleanup thing probably isn't the problem either. I'm out of ideas.</p>

<p>Yes, the photos are in jpg format, but I don't see how that can be the problem. As I said in my OP, the total size of the document is less than 8Mb...</p>

<p>Let's see whether the disk cleanup solves the problem.<br>

BTW, don't know whether it's relevant or not, but the computer is pretty slow to boot up.</p>

<p>[[bTW, don't know whether it's relevant or not, but the computer is pretty slow to boot up.]]</p>

<p>Just recently it's become slow to boot? That could be malware and/or a virus.</p>

<p>You could also try doing an open/repair of your word file. Open word (not a document, just a new instance) and then File --> Open. Select your document but do not open it yet. Next to the "Open" button should be a drop-down arrow, choose "Open and Repair"</p>

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<p>What is the space In megabytes of *all* the photos the word document has; *when the images are open?*<br>

<br /> Here In printing we sometimes get a bloaded word file; maybe it is only 5 to 50 megs and the images when opened are a GIG or two. ie folks have a 1:100 compressed jpegs for a business card file image on one page; the image imbeded image might be 1 meg; and 100 megs when opened.<br>

<br /> We got a Phd's file that he had trouble printing; and so did other local printers. A 50 page 8.5x11 set would take more than an hour to print; with a machine that will print 35 color pages per minute. He just dropped in images in the report with a dont care about image size. the printer has to sort thru all this; one can have a mollasses print job or one that runs out of memory.<br>

Other issues are weird fonts; is the printer hunting and substituting fonts?</p>

<p>I could be totally wrong, but my guess is that you probably didn't down-rez your images before inserting them in your Word document, and this is most likely the cause of your problem. I say this because I see the exact same problem with my students many times per semester.</p>

<p>In your 1st post, you stated that your document contains lots of photos. I'm guessing that this means at least one or two per page, so your 70 pg document sounds like it could easily contain 100 images or more.</p>

<p>My guess is that if most of your images came straight from a modern, many-megapixel camera, or a reasonably high rez scan, each few meg JPG can easily turn into a 20 meg bitmap when decompressed for viewing, display, editing, etc. You're now talking about 20 megs/image X 100 images, or a total of at least 2 Gigs of image data. Add in another Gig of memory for the OS, and you are now in the range where many computers start to run out of memory.</p>

<p>There is rarely any reason to insert full resolution images into a Word document because when printed or viewed, each image will be at most a few inches on a side. Downsize each image so that it's longest dimension is, say, 1000 pixels, and you will have all the image resolution you can possibly use, and your memory requirements will shrink enormously -- 10x or more. In actuality, even 1000 pixels on a side is overkill unless you plan to project the individual images from the document on a large screen. If you don't plan to do this, you could easily go down to images of about 500 px on a side and save another factor of 4 on memory use.</p>

<p>FWIW, I teach a Senior Thesis at a university and I run into this problem all the time with my students. Nobody ever teaches the students about resizing images until they get to my class and have to put together moderately long documents with lots of images.</p>

<p>HTH,</p>

<p>Tom M</p>

<p>PS - Even if you down-sized most of your images, but forgot to downsize a few, this problem can still occur on smaller computers, older operating systems, etc.</p>

<p>Gerry -</p>

<p>* Try deleting your *.tmp files.<br />* Delete your normal.dot file.</p>

<p>Make sure you reboot after these steps.</p>

<p>Best Regards,<br>

Jack</p>

<p>i think you have a bad image file in your document that's preventing the stuff following it from displaying.</p>

<p>Re "I could be totally wrong, but my guess is that you probably didn't down-rez your images before inserting them in your Word document, and this is most likely the cause of your problem".<br />**** This what I was trying to get across too.<br>

<br />Here in printing for the public I actually totally hate printing from a word document; the time to print them has doesnt matter what the printers speed is; it is how bloaded the inserted images are.<br />One can have the "same looking" type document print 100 times slower with Customer #3 than Customer #5's input.<br>

<br />I really wish there was a audio farting sound that would go off when a typical bloaded word doc is looked at; iw degree of bload; newbie; ie your 35 page per minute 16 grand color printer is going to be tied up for 1 hour to print a 15 page doc.<br>

<br />To print many sets either we have to unbload the word file by messing with it; or make copies off of the 1st copy. Making copies off of copies *tends* to degrade shadow details and highlights. making cvopies off of copys is really not the best way to make a great output; but is done whn one doesnt have the time to tie up the entire day with one small job due to bload.<br>

<br />Quoting on an unseen Word doc as far as turnaround speed for a big job is thus dicey. Customer #4 may know what they are doing; the job flys thru the machine. Customer#8 might be flagged on the sales computer as one who brings in bloaded/ill/slow files; thus turnaround times might be 10 to 100 times longer.<br>

<br />Folks will have a postage stamp sized color logo at the top of each printed page; it might be 120 by 80 pixels on the 8.5x11 printed page; but the image in the Word document is say off a digital camera and 2000x3000 pixels. The print job might have this logo on each page of 60 pages; and each page has to downsize this image.<br>

With a rip; sometime the flatened job can be saved for quick reprintings; the first copy comes out in 1/2 hour; the next set of 30 sheets in 1 minuite; the next set of 30 color sheets in one minute; etc..</p>

<p>A better way to to use smaller images and or flatten teh Word document into a flat Universe; a flat PDF that goes thru the printer at warp speed; with little memory or bog issues.</p>

<p>It sounds to me that Word when it opens a document it does not cache the unread content onto the hard disk. I understand that a true desktop publishing software will cache unread parts onto the hard disk. But I am digressing.</p>