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Ok my wife wanted to do something for her father. and on top of that actually get Beamer to help her out.
she created this list. we had to make it large so he could read it easily. I never could get it to render. Apparently I reached the upper limit? i was getting a WEB PAGE is slowing down CANCEL WAIT Dialog showing up. firefox browser.
It is a lot of text which I am wondering if it choked the system?
I shrunk it down substantially and then got it to render. however it turned out to be illegible. I was up until 4AM waiting for it to get done. the text looked good with the mask on, Once I removed that things went down hill fast.
Is there some way to know what the size limits are for the files, that I might have missed some place?
The buffer has a limit somewhere around 3 hours if I recall. One thing you can do is reduce the LPI to lighten the load. SVGOMG has helped me reduce the size of some problematic files.
If you take note of the number of nodes in your file and run it through that link, you will see a significant reduction. There are also file splitting utilities that will break up your file into sections. Another way to accomplish that is to use different colors in your file that will show up in the UI as seperate ops.
Text can be wickedly complex when converting to outlines/curves; a ton of points. I couldn’t get your file to load on my end.
What I think I would do for engraving a bunch of text like this is make sure I have my design set up the size that I want it to be engraved at; grab about 1/3rd of the text and rasterize that section. Grab the next 1/3rd, rasterize. Grab the next 1/3rd, rasterize.
With the new higher speed PG engrave settings, you can get pretty much a full bed engrave in one go, I believe. But, if you have 3 images placed, that gives you the option of breaking the job up.
Well I ran it through the site @PrintToLaser suggested, I will have to give it a go later on. It was able to be rendered and did so quickly. and this image is MUCH larger than the actual engrave I did last night this am.
man in hurt going to sleep at 5 AM with a failure under my belt.
If nothing else, convert to a PNG file and see how long that will take to engrave (I turned off my machine and don’t have a time estimate). Make sure to rotate it before taking it into the GFUI. Actually, here is a version.
Not thinking about changing file formats isn’t really a DUH moment. If you’ve been reading the forums you’ll have picked up that vector formats have a lot of advantages. Usually.
In this case, your file had so many nodes that it couldn’t process in the GFUI very well. I figured since you were going to be engraving anyway to get good quality text it could just as easily be a file that was lightweight that the GFUI processes much easier.
FWIW, generally go with PNG over JPG if you have a choice. Personal opinion and your mileage may vary
Thanks so much for the help, all! There are some great tips in this thread. @ca_worth, I’m so sorry you ran into trouble. I’ll be sure to pass on your feedback regarding error messaging.
As others have mentioned, it looks like your file contains a very large number of nodes, which may be leading to problems. Here is a trick you can use:
Open your design in your design software.
Draw a box around the text. Give it a stroke that is a different color than the rest of the design.
Upload the design to the Glowforge app and open it. The design will open, but everything inside the box will be grouped.
Set the box to be ignored in the steps bar and configure the settings of your design as you wish.
Could you try this out and let me know if it helps? Thank you!
I was up until 4AM waiting for it to get done. the text looked good with the mask on, Once I removed that things went down hill fast. 
