[Linked Pictures still increase afpub filesize]

HI all

I am using the affinity publisher first time, and I am impressed about the good functions in this app! Congratulation to the dev team.

One thing I has seen is: If I place some pictures, and set them to linked (not embedded), I finally get anyway a big afpub file. I have all my pictures in one folder, the total amount ist about 142 MB, and if I place all these pictures the final afpub is more that 165 MB. It seems the pictures are still embedded and not only linked?

I am currently using the 1.7.0.206

Thanks and kinde regards

Andreas