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Thanks, seems to work! I wasn't embedding all the images, just some of the heaviest. So must embed all images and then link them, and 'save as' !!!

I don't understand what you mean. I see my name and when I click on it 'content' and 'settings'. Anyway, I have a Mac M1 computer running MacOS 12.6 Monterey. I stopped using Affinity Pub V2 because of above problems and switched back to AFPub V1 1.10.5. I produce a quarterly magazine, 96 pages, 8.5" x 11", full colour Hi-res images, print. As of last Summer an issue would weigh 9 MB in AffinityPub. Fall issue last year, same page count, different images, but generally the same, weighed 49 MB. Early this year, new issue, same page count, weighed 73 MB. This year, a month ago, new issue, same page count, weighs 320 MB! Yesterday, prepared newer issue for this Fall, weighed 830 MB!! Made some corrections this morning, changed some images, corrected text, weighed 1.7 GB. Further corrections, the embed, link thingamajig, and now it weighs 3 GB!!! I've done the embed, link, and save as, again, but it slightly reduces size. Now 2.7 GB! However, files keep weighing more with each passing month! It can't go from 9- 10 MB it weighed back in the day, to 3 GB nowadays! Either there's something wrong with Mac computers (although I haven't changed anything since last year, not even upgraded to Ventura because it's even worse) or there's something very wrong with Affinity. It just keeps getting worse all the time. A colleague of mine has had his documents bloat up to 50 GB, making it impossible to work on a computer. Somehow AFP either keeps uploading the images to the content even though they are only linked, or there's another sort of bug. I don't use Cloud or anything like that. Copy content to exterior hard disks in case I can't open documents anymore. Do 'save as' every time, and now I have a load of files getting heavier all the time. The embed, link thing doesn't work anymore. PLEASE, NEED YOUR HELP!!!!!

Has this problem been fixed yet? Every time I make a change on the document, whether it's moving an image around, or adding text, the document size increases ten-fold. I've tried everything: 'save as' under different name every time I make a change, going to the Resource Manager and embedding and then linking images. A file that began at 830 MB now weighs 3.2 GB, after adding some text and moving some images around.

As far as I can see it's not on. How can I turn it off? I never use that. And I get the size increase with every file I open in V2.

It doesn't take long to save a file.

I changed part of the text and saved, and it immediately grew from 3.2MB to 219.6MB. Then opened again, did a minor change on text, went to 215.9MB, and saved under different name and it went to 215.1MB. All I'm doing is changing a word or two, It shouldn't grow up so much. So it's not the images in the document, as I haven't touched them. Somehow when I make a change and save again, it grows potentially. Maybe it's something to do with the history of the file, that keeps adding up, although I always click on 'Save as' when I make a change.

I've used both tiff and jpegs. It has never been a problem with V1 before. And I can't send the file because there are too many images and it's all copyrighted, so I can't share them online. This seems to be a general problem with Publisher 2, and was on version 1 using an M1 Mac. But the problem was resolved on version 1 by working with the Resource Manager and embedding and linking images. So it's either still a problem with a Mac M1, or it's something else with V2. I haven't upgraded to Ventura because I believe it will be even worse.

I'm having the same problem with Publisher 2. I'm using an iMac M1 under Mac OS Monterey v 12.6. Under Publisher v 1.10.5 I had problems with the size growing larger when saving document. I solved it by following your recommendation of going to Resource Manager, embedding the largest 5-6 files and then linking them, and 'Save as' afterwards, and the document would reduce its size. No problem there! However, under Publisher 2 I open the exact same file I had under V1 that weighs 11.9 MB, and open it on V2 and when I save it it goes up to 224.2 MB. I followed all the steps under Resource Manager on version 2, and the file still weighs 100 times more than it should under V1. It's still at 222.2 MB, and there's nothing I can do about. I tried embedding every file (more than 100 images), and then linking them back, no change. The document is still extremely heavy, when it shouldn't weigh more than 20MB. In other words, I had to go back to Version 1, and discard Version 2 which I bought recently. So the above solution doesn't work on V2. Document under Publisher 1: Now the same document I had under Publisher 1, I opened and saved in Publisher 2. At one point it was at 10.1 MB. I made some corrections on the text, and saved again, and it went up to 224.2. I'm using exactly the same font that I use on version 1 (which is included in the software and computer), so it wasn't because I added a new font that doesn't exist. I checked the preflight, and there's no problem with the document. I went under Resource Manager and embedded the heaviest images and then linked them. No change, it's still too heavy. I even embedded and linked all the images, saved file under different names, and still the same result. It won't go under 224 MB as can be seen on image below. Any solutions besides the one I cited above?

I'm having the same problem with Publisher 2. I'm using an iMac M1 under Mac OS Monterey v 12.6. Under Publisher v 1.10.5 I had problems with the size growing larger when saving document. I solved it by following your recommendation of going to Resource Manager, embedding the largest 5-6 files and then linking them, and 'Save as' afterwards, and the document would reduce its size. No problem there! However, under Publisher 2 I open the exact same file I had under V1 that weighs 11.9 MB, and open it on V2 and when I save it it goes up to 224.2 MB. I followed all the steps under Resource Manager on version 2, and the file still weighs 100 times more than it should under V1. It's still at 222.2 MB, and there's nothing I can do about. I tried embedding every file (more than 100 images), and then linking them back, no change. The document is still extremely heavy, when it shouldn't weigh more than 20MB. In other words, I had to go back to Version 1, and discard Version 2 which I bought recently. So the above solution doesn't work on V2. Document under Publisher 1: Now the same document I had under Publisher 1, I opened and saved in Publisher 2. At one point it was at 10.1 MB. I made some corrections on the text, and saved again, and it went up to 224.2. I'm using exactly the same font that I use on version 1, so it wasn't because I added a new font that doesn't exist. I checked the preflight, and there's no problem with the document. I went under Resource Manager and embedded the heaviest images and then linked them. No change, it's still too heavy. I even embedded and linked all the images, saved file under different names, and still the same result. It won't go under 224 MB as can be seen on image below. Any solutions?

Thanks, that was it! I upgraded recently from 1.7.3 to 1.8.4 and it changed everything, even the language. I had it set to UK English as a norm, and when upgrading it didn't recongnise the UK English and kept changing all the spelling over to US English. I had to change everything back to English UK in Character Language (before it was all set automatically to UK English, and you had to change it if you wanted to use another language). Anyway, it works now! Many thanks! Case closed!

Replying to my own question, you can change this under text/insert/quotation marks/single or double quote, but it still has to be done one at a time. Any way we can add this to the preferences?

Before Publisher 1.8.4, inverted commas or quotation marks were the 'curly' type, and now they are straight. For double inverted commas you have to use (alt + ") on your keyboard to open quote, and then (alt + cap arrow + ") to close quote. However, for the single quotation mark it's always straight. I know this isn't a major problem, but with previous versions (until recently I used 1.7.3) I didn't have this problem. This same question was asked last year, and nobody from Affinity has yet given an answer. Why did it work fine before, and doesn't work anymore since 1.8? Is there any way of doing this? I publish a magazine, and having to change this one at a time is daunting. Can anyone from Affinity reply, please?

Actually I have no problem with 1.7.3. I guess there was a misunderstanding. With the beta version of 1.8.4 and at 85% jpeg compression, the file size when comparing to the same settings with 1.7.3 were relatively the same. However, under 97% jpeg compression documents weigh up to four times more! I personally see no difference between the results for the two compressions, so will continue to use compression at 85%. PDF/X-4 setting with 85% jpeg compression under 1.7.3 for 96 page document with 300 dpi colour images on every page weighed 192.5 MB. Same document with same settings under Beta version 1.8.4 weighed 182.2 MB. So slightly lighter than with version 1.7.3. However, since the difference is so small, it's not a major problem. That said, under InDesign my documents weighed around that size (less than 200 MB for a 96-page full-colour document), and frankly the images look the same! However, under 1.8, I have problems inserting or importing pdf files (as adverts). Won't accept imported pdf when setting under PDF/X-4, and says there is an error. Although will accept imported pdf file under any other pdf setting. I've noted this on another entry under bugs with Publisher. Unfortunately your colleague couldn't work around the problem, so I have to convert imported pdf files to tiff or jpeg files first. Don't have this problem under 1.7.3, although Publisher tends to distort text from a pdf file. I just noticed this recently, so I still have to convert any pdf file (not done in Publisher) into a tiff or jpeg file before importing into a Publisher document.

And under the other pdf settings it weighs twice as much than under PDF/X-4, which is why I'd rather do the pdfs under X-4.

As I mentioned before, it works with all the other pdf settings, but not under PDF/X-4