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Thanks, Dan C. That's a helpful clarification. We have been using PDF Passthrough for architectural drawings with the idea that the quality of the drawing (particularly the quality and thickness of lines) would be negatively impacted if we don't use Passthrough. Do you think that's an accurate assessment? All the documentation about PDF Passthrough seems to focus on the integrity of fonts.

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In my situation, I'm just importing single page PDFs.

[Publisher file size]

I’ve been creating small test documents to compare the size of CS6 InDesign documents to Affinity Publisher 1.10 documents. I’m working on Windows 10. In all the tests, I am linking the assets rather than embedding. When I place JPGs or PNGs the Publisher files are smaller than the InDesign files. Yay! But when I place PDFs the Publisher file is significantly larger than the InDesign file. On the order of 4-5 times larger!! Which quickly becomes a problem because of huge file sizes. The PDFs are set to PDF Passthrough.

Does anyone have any idea what’s going on? Or what I can do to keep files to a reasonable size? I’m regularly faced with Publisher files over 100 MB which become hard to work with. Help!

[Publisher file size]

I’ve been creating small test documents to compare the size of CS6 InDesign documents to Affinity Publisher 1.10 documents. I’m working on Windows 10. In all the tests, I am linking the assets rather than embedding. When I place JPGs or PNGs the Publisher files are smaller than the InDesign files. Yay! But when I place PDFs the Publisher file is significantly larger than the InDesign file. On the order of 4-5 times larger!! Which quickly becomes a problem because of huge file sizes. The PDFs are set to PDF Passthrough.

Does anyone have any idea what’s going on? Or what I can do to keep files to a reasonable size? I’m regularly faced with Publisher files over 100 MB which become hard to work with. Help!