Any tips for exporting to JPEG with effects on and getting it to work < 1hr?

So I'm using a pretty stout machine. 16 gigs of ram, quad core, and a beefy video card, but regardless of the hardware I throw at it, when I turn sheet effects on and try to do a save as...jpeg ... I can reliably go off, watch a film, eat supper, and *maybe* have it complete when I come back ... if it hasn't crashed.

If I have a dungeon map at 180x180, and I have it broken down into 5' squares, a few rooms, about 12 symbols, half a dozen doors ... nothing crazy going on here ... what's the best way of printing it out as a jpeg at 1" (final print) = 5' (map scale). Yes, it would be a big image - but let's say I had access to a printer that could handle it, is it even possible to export a jpeg that big - print quality - from CC3/DD3? Because everything I've tried causes small explosions and the dead to walk the earth.

Or is the only practical way to do jpeg exports of rectangular selections and piece the little bugger together?

Comments

  • jpeg is very lossy. I suggest png export. You can always use Irfanview to convert the png back to jpg once you export.

    I don't print, so someone else will have to answer that part.
  • JPEG or PNG, I have the same problems. Insane rendering times for simple maps, and more complex maps cause crashes.
  • ClerconClercon Betatester Traveler
    If I want to export a map, with effects I always print them to pdf. I'm using Cutepdf and the result is great and it doesn't take more than five minutes, at a maximum. After I've received the printed pdf I open it up in a photo editor program (I use Photoshop for this) and save it as a png or jpg. I realy recommend this procedure rather than the save as command that takes quite some more time.
  • VintyriVintyri Newcomer
    Posted By: kolyanaSo I'm using a pretty stout machine. 16 gigs of ram
    CC3 is a 32-bit program, so it's not able to use most of those 16 GB.
  • edited July 2012
    Clercon, let me try that and see if it helps, thanks.

    edit: checked - Clercon, thanks man - that seems to help. I started a JPEG print a while ago and it's still going. I ran another (concurrently) as a CutePDF print and have it printed, cropped, whizbanged through Photoshop and printed off to paper ... and the JPEG print is *STILL* going, lol.
  • ClerconClercon Betatester Traveler
    Your welcome kolyana. I wasn't the on inventing the procedure, I read about it here on the forum some time ago. But it sure works much better :)
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