Common rendering problems
 
 
 

This section covers problems where the rendering ends normally, but the resulting image has problems.

Rendering ends prematurely

A common cause is the lack of memory:

Do one of the following:

See Optimization.

If this does not seem to be the cause of the problem, then do one or all of the following:

Increase memory swapping

Problem: Increase the amount of swap space on your system disk.

Note

You must have root access to increase the amount of swap space on your system disk.

  1. Create a file such that its file size represents the amount of swap space you want on your system disk.

    For example, to create a 200 MB file you would type the following in a UNIX shell:

    mkfile 200m <filename>
    
  2. Using a text editor (for example, jot) open the file:
    /etc/fstab
    

    and add the following line to it:

    <path+filename> swap swap pri=2 0 0
    
  3. Either restart your computer, or type the following in a UNIX shell:
    swap -a <filename>
    

Some other possible remedies include:

Images that don’t exist take a long time to load

The interactive package attempts to locate an image file in all directories specified by ALIAS_PIX_SEARCHPATH.

Reduce the number of directories in ALIAS_PIX_SEARCHPATH.

Rendering takes a long time

See Optimization.