Solution to bucket not filling / crashing in large vector documents

[roryd2705]

Hi!

Lately, I have been experiencing issues whereby when a document is at an advanced stage of development, filling suddenly slows down, stops, and crashes. I have found a neat workaround.

1. Copy the layer.
2. Paste the layer into a new document, ensuring that the document "paper" size is the same as the one you are currently working on, so that they line up.
3. Marquee out / erase everything in that layer except the problematic part.
4. Perform the fills you need.
5. Copy the layer
6. Paste the layer into the original document.
7. Merge down.

Just thought I'd share in case anyone else is experiencing the same issue as it was driving me nuts! I found quitting and restarting Fresco sped it back up slightly but wouldn't necessarily enable the fill to work again.

[DaveJCummings]

Are you using the newest version of Fresco?