Bloom Illustrations

[ktrammell]

Hello!

What is the best format for Bloom illustrations? I’m using jpeg files, but the program is S L O W!

Thanks,

Kristine

[andrew_polk]

These posts provide some useful information regarding your question.

How to save images for use in bloom

I wonder if someone could give me wisdom on the best way to save images for use in BLOOM? Should they be tiff? png? jpeg? or does it depend how you’re going to use them? Any other wisdom? Thanks Bethann

Image format question

A user recently asked us this question: I tried to make sense of the images that are stored in my Bloom books folder. All the images in the books were inserted as PNG files, but I only see page 1 as png-file, the rest have been converted to jpg. ** I couldn’t think of any reason why Page 1 isn’t converted to jpeg. I know Bloom was always warning users against jpegs, but I’m now finding out that even for books layed out for print (A5 Portrait), Bloom is converting png-files to jpeg. ** Should…

But image format shouldn’t, generally, cause slowness.
What version of Bloom are you using?
When are you experiencing the slowness? I.e. is it when changing pages in the Edit tab? When producing a PDF? etc.