Willouj

Thank you for responding so quickly! Attached is a screen shot of my set default preferences 🙂. It says the Disk Usage Warning is set to 32768 MB.

Publisher is being very sluggish while working with my current file and I received this error message. The file itself is only 36.5 MB and I'm working on an M1 Mac. Any help would be appreciated :-). Thanks!

If I were you I would skip using Affinity Designer for this task. I open up and merge jpg files right in Apple Preview—I'm using OS 11.1 but I think it's similar in older versions. I open up the jpg file in Preview, make sure the thumbnail panel is showing, and then drag the files I want to merge from my desktop into the thumbnail bar. You can arrange the pages in the thumbnail bar and then export the file as a pdf. I recently discovered that Preview can do more than I realized, which is awesome because I'm no longer using Acrobat Pro. Hope this works for you as well 🙂

Thanks for your time answering this post! 🙂 There was a difference in the pdf file size between links and embedded images because I had many multiple instances of each image. Every instance of every image was embedded into the pdf when the images were embedded into the Publisher file. When the images were linked, they were only embedded into the pdf file once per image 🙂

Yes! When you link images instead of embedding them in Publisher, the program will still embed the images into the pdf file with the original resolution in tact upon export. I am using the same images multiple times in my Publisher document. Because each instance of an image was embedded individually in the Publisher file, each instance was also being embedded individually into the pdf file upon export. When the files were linked in Publisher instead of embedded, the program realized it only needed to embed each image file once when exported, instead of embedding every instance of the image in the pdf file.

I think it was because the document was originally a pdf file—I opened it up in Publisher and the images were automatically embedded at that point. It all makes sense now 🙂. Thank you again!

Yes, yes I am.

Thank you Selorm! My images were indeed embedded instead of linked, I truly appreciate your help!

Thanks for the reply! Is this fairly typical for Affinity Designer, or am I experiencing something abnormal?

I looked through the forum for an answer to this question and only found confusing work-arounds. I'm coming from InDesign, which exports high-quality pdfs with small file sizes. For exactly the same type of file, exported with similar quality, the exported pdfs are SO much larger coming from Publisher. Am I stuck trying work-arounds or is this something Affinity can address in simple terms?