Generating Pixels

[hoovinator57874153]

Since upgrading to a new Mac with Catalina, every time I open an Illustrator file I get the message "Generating Pixels". It seems to significantly increase the time it takes to open some files and I can't for the life of me figure out how to disable this

[mjbelt]

Looks from your ScreenShot, file launches in Photoshop and not Illustrator. Is file extension: .png, .jpeg? 

[hoovinator57874153]

No, it's an .ai file and that is a message generated by Illustrator. I should mention that I was previously using version 24.01 and this is 24.1 and I'm wondering if that has anything to do with it

[hoovinator57874153]

I just downgraded Illustrator to 24.01 and the problem went away. Not sure where that leaves me if all future versions of Illustrator have this problem.

[Monika Gause]

You could try and in preferences > Performance turn off the draw in realtime feature.

https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/using/whats-new.html

[hoovinator57874153]

I'm pretty sure I didn't have that enabled to begin with but I can't check now since it's not an option in the version I'm now running. At some point I can install the latest version again and check that

[hoovinator57874153]

I went ahead and upgraded to 24.1.2 and checked that setting in Preferences. Turns out it was already off and did not solve the problem. Just for good measure, I turned it on, quit Illustrator, launched it again and turned it off, quit Illustrator and launched it again. No difference. I have noticed that it seems to bring up that progress bar once for each linked image I have in the file. We do mostly packaging files in Illustrator and can have over a dozen linked images, which makes the file that much slower to open. *sigh* back to 24.0.1 for now.