referenced images vs. images?

[Lars Brehmer]

Thank you for the tip Sarah!

However something is wrong. Terribly and strangely wrong. I made a  
folder with all photos, delete all corresponding photos in the stack,  
and reimported them as referenced images. The stack is STILL 550 megs!  
The standalone contains the following:

12 kb    the stack that is the standalone
36 kb    a second main stack
628 kb  all images in the in the main stack that are the icons and  
graphics of the interface
5.8mb   the referenced folder that contains the photos in question
2.3mb   the executable

This adds up to about 8.8 mb. The main stack has 130 cards all with  
the same background group, so without the photos, it should be about  
700 kb tops, so the standalone shoud be about 9.5 mb. But it is STILL  
550 mb! And it takes 8 seconds to launch, either in Rev or as a  
standalone. It saves itself when it closes, which also takes 8  
seconds. In both cases the beachball shows up.

I opened a copy of the main stack and deleted all cards but one,  
including even the card with the 628 kb of icon images. I saved it,  
closed Rev and guess what? The stack file is is still 550 mb!!!!!!!!

The build has nothing included at all, no ask/answer, no database  
support, no fonts, absolutely nothing!

Has anyone ever seen anything like this? It is driving me crazy!!!!!!!!!

Cheers,

Lars

by the way, in my original post below, it says 500 megs of images.  
that is not even correct (I just lookes at the file size without  
thinking.) There are only 5.8 megs of photos, so if I left them in the  
main stack, it should still be under 7 mb!

>
>> I have a stack with a lot of images, about 500 megs worth. Opening   
>> and
>> saving the standalone is very slow, so I redid the entire stack and  
>> imported
>> the same images as referenced images from a separate folder instead  
>> of
>> simply importing them into the stack. I thought that the stack size  
>> would
>> drop from 550 megs to 50 megs by having referenced images outside  
>> of the
>> stack, but it doesn't - it stays the same size and is just as slow.  
>> Also,
>> when saving the standalone, there seems to be no way to include the  
>> folder
>> that contains the referenced images, and in the standalone there is  
>> just a
>> grey rectangle where the images are supposed to be, obviously  
>> because the
>> wasn't included in the standalone.
>>
>> What am I doing wrong? Have I misunderstood the concept of  
>> referenced images
>> completely? I found no answers in the Rev docs and am a little bit
>> frustrated!
>
>
> If the size of your standalone hasn't changed, it appears that the
> images are still stored as part of the stack.
> You will need to clear them all out before building - put empty into
> img "MyImage" will work I think.
> Then your standalone needs to know where to find the images relative
> to your standalone.
>
> In Mac, the standalone is actually buried inside an application
> bundle, which is a folder in disguise.
> Get into it by right-clicking on the app and choosing "Show Package  
> Contents".
> Drill down in to the folders and you will find your standalone.
> Your app needs to look for the images folder relative to this
> location. The easiest is probably put the images folder inside the
> bundle, so it is hidden from the casual user. If you put it in the
> MacOS folder with your standalone, you can use the same references as
> for the Windows version.
>
> Cheers,
> Sarah