tylermason72

So the file was given to us as is except the gradient was just a normal gradient, no dots. We used an Illustrator plug-in to turn the gradient into dots (which is why they're individually clickable in Illustrator at least), I personally didn't do it but the person who did was using an i7-4770k, 32gb (or less?) ram, 860 evo ssd, and a GTX 970. As far as I know it took several days and the computer was unusable haha. We hit print as soon as it was ready, no workflow issues here.

Each individual dot in the gradient is selectable. They may not be when opened in Affinity Designer, which may be why it runs it a little better than Illustrator. If someone could open the PDF or the .afdesign file in Illustrator and let me know the results that'd be greatly appreciated.

The PDF file was given to us, so we didn't make it. it's large because it's a dot gradient, not a normal gradient and it's being printed on window film and being put on a conference room so it has to be very high resolution or it'll look bad, the gradient being that much of the actual file size doesn't surprise me, the rest of it is pretty simple. How much were you able to work with the file, and could you move around each individual dot in the gradient? (not the big white circles)

Try this one 1stsurface.afdesign

So apple says 18-core xeon but the 9980XE is half the price apple lists it for and doesn't support ECC memory and only up to 128GB not 256GB, like Apple says it does, assuming it's the same CPU because Apple doesn't even actually say. Would the Threadripper 2990WX not be better? It has 32 cores opposed to the 9980XE's 18 and even supports up to 1024GB (not that I would use that much) vs 128GB with basically the same price (a little less even) and about the same boost speed (4.2GHz TR vs 4.3GHz XE) Why the Radeon Pro as well? There's much better cards. Are there certain things that Affinity Designer utilizes? Does it prefer high cores like the 2990WX with 32 or high boost speeds like the i9-9900k that can get over 5GHz? If I remember correctly the GPU doesn't really affect performance in Designer much at all so any basic modern GPU should do on that front, no? I've attached a file that usually just freezes AI and won't let me touch it that I could somewhat use in AF, if anyone wants to test it in either. And if anyone's got any software side performance tips, they'd be greatly appreciated. Thanks! 1stsurface.pdf

I work with very large files with dot gradients, so there's millions of tiny dots all over the place. Adobe Illustrator literally wouldn't work with this file, I'd move my mouse and go to sleep before it actually responds. But on Designer I can sort of move around, probably because it actually uses the hardware resources unlike Illustrator. I'm looking for very high end PC build so I can work smoothly on these extremely complex files. Assume no budget Thanks!