Artist L

So the image is currently open in Affinity Photo and shows 1550 pixels wide. I’m guessing this is my first of many mistakes!

And, no, the image is not at 100%… Original Panting is 11 x 14.

So, I took my iPhoto pic and converted it to a 10 MB file TIFF and placed it with the type. Even then it was still small when converted to a PDF for print. I even upped the DPI. So clearly, I do NOT KNOW how to set up for Press in Affinity. I had to send the ‘pieces’ to the publisher so they could reassemble in Photoshop. Ugg. After doing this for 30+ years I feel like an idiot.

300 as per magazine specs

I’m a long time InDesign User and trying desperately to quickly learn the Affinity Suite to get an ad Press ready. I’m having great trouble getting the final file size to be large enough for quality printing. A 9 inch by 11 inch layout is turning to 1.4 MB when converted to PDF/X-1a. I then inserted a hi res image [10 MB] and it’s still too small. I would love some resources or advice on how to prep a doc for high quality press runs. Thanks, former Adobe User