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I have set up a menu page page with about a dozen small frames. Each frame has a small image and some text.
The page loads with a one second on show transition.
During editing I can hop to and from the page really smoothly, but after publishing it takes about 5 seconds to return to go to the menu.
Any ideas why this could be?

OK, so I sort of solved it... I downsized all the source images so they were much closer to the displayed size. (The originals were pretty huge). It made the dfference.

But it leaves me puzzled-
I thought that when the page was rendered during the publication process the page would be converted to a bmp or jpg of the whole composite image and that the source file size would be irrelevant (apart from slowing down the publication process).
Hmmm?

Mac, I might be misunderstanding,

But I seriously doubt that the page is rendered to an image when published. Opus does compress (very well) Image / Audio resources if embedded and selected in the publish options BUT everything remains an object and images retain the same dimensions as the originals else I have serious problems with some of my publications

Cardinal rule is to create Images and Audio to the specifications you require before dropping them into Opus as you would with a webpage. Also check Bi-Linear resizing option as it will slow Opus if used to many times on large images that are scaled.

Mack

Mack-
I'm sure you are right! I think I'm having a flashback to Illuminatus!
I'm convinced that I read that a long time ago, but I certainly cannot find it in the help file now.
All I can find is the special case of choosing to render selected objects which have visual effects, to speed up display.

I have just tried a pub with one image on the page as a menu item, using a 20MB tiff as the source, plus a few other very small images.
The page loaded quickly before and after publishing (at about 2 MB), with compress images turned off, so I assume it got downsized to suit the page, but as you say was probably still an uncompressed jpg or a png when it was published.
Anyhow, my real publication is working well even if I don't quite get the reasons, so I'm happy.
cheers