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Jens Krebs

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  1. Thanks @MikeW -- thought, the smaller file was from InDesign, must have made it with the Publisher beta and forgotten about it. Here's a screenshot of my PDF settings ... as you see, I intended for all fonts to be embedded ... do you know why Publisher is turning the text into curves instead?
  2. Hi everyone, I have managed to find another two files for comparison, one PDF from InDesign (1-2019) and another almost identical one created from Publisher (2-2019) -- the Publisher one is more than 10x as big, even though the title image is smaller and the barcodes and small logos from 1-2019 are not included. I am happy to share the Publisher file with someone for analysis (preferrably a Serif employee), but don't feel comfortable putting it in here for everyone to download. Please contact me if you can help and want to take a look at the Publisher file. In addition, I have downloaded a trial of "Callas PDF Toolbox" to see if I can find something myself, I'll keep this thread updated. 2-2019.pdf 1-2019.pdf
  3. I made the attached calendar in 15 minutes with the tables tool ... son't see what you need templates for ...
  4. @ashf Thanks for checking, this is not one of the problem files though, it is a low res from InDesign, just as an example for the layout @thomaso Ah, thar's good hints, thanks -- I'll check my Publisher file (created from scratch btw) and also upload a couple of pages later tonight.
  5. OK, not sure if someone is still reading this, but I made a little experiment: I created a publication in InDesign and exported it with my ,usual' print settings (crop marks, 300dpi, CMYK colour profile ...). The file size of this export is 75MB. Next I opened this PDF file in Affinity Publisher and exported it wit the same settings – resulting in a PDF of 408(!) MB. Considering that there was only 75MB of source material and all fonts are installed on my computer, this is quite strange. Happy to supply both files (original InDesign PDF and the new one) to Serif, if they are willing to investigate.
  6. They returned to MAC earlier this year with version 2019 ... take a look at www.coredraw.com (it's available without a subscription on the AppStore and on their website). I haven't tried it yet, but will give it a good spin when I have some free time.
  7. Here's the file as a normal attachment ... this is just to give you an idea what the brochure looks like. As said, I don't see anything that would explaing the size blowing up from this to 13MB in the Publisher version (cannot share that yet, will update after it's released). If any the Publisher version should be smaller, because it doesn't contain the star spangled sky register on the left and right outer border on every page. Mit_uns_durch_Köln_und_in_die_Region.pdf
  8. Nothing complicated, here's a link to last years brochure (1MB). The new one looks the same, just without the image borders left and right, so, if any, the new one should be smaller. Download
  9. Hi Thadeusz, yes, I have checked, changed and tested all settings you mention. I have now trialled NX Powerlite online, SmallPDF (see above), Bluebeam Revu, PDF Expert and PDF Squeezer with my test file -- all programs manage to decrease my file size only about 1-3 percent (yes, percent, not megabyte) by working on the images, so the massive size must come from text and vector elements. Regarding project file size, the developers said somewhere here on the forums, that the file format is optimised for speed, not for size, and I personally like it and don't mind the size, because Publisher is flippin' fast.
  10. Thanks Ash, thanks Alan, I have played around with the settings (reduced the JPG quality down to 70, set the downsample boundary to everything above 72dpi and tried to export with and without layers), but this particular file I am experimenting with is always at least 13 MB (the print file is 140, but that doesn't matter). When i did exactly the same publication (we are talking about the same amount of text, same fonts, same amount of images, same page count, same layout) in InDesign (and a test in Quark XPress before I decided to wait for Publisher) during the last couple of years the print files were about 15 MB and the web files somewhere around 1 MB with similar export settings as in Publisher. I'm going to try some of the PDF reducing apps, but my point stays that Publishers PDF files are significantly larger than Adobes and the ones form Quark XPress and with the images being of the same size and quality (the 15MB and 140MB print files have exactly the same resolution and print settins), the issue has to lie somewhere else.
  11. I do believe this is on purpose — just imagine you want to replace the format of all paragraphs starting with "Hello" and Publisher accidentally deletes all the Hellos ... in an earlier discussion, I suggested a special character or code that will delete the found text (=tag), so that the user CAN delete it during can-replace but must do it on purpose. I have just done a 48page catalogue with find-replace and it worked fine — while proper tagged import and plugins would be swell, for starters, I would be happy with a simple recording/macro feature so that I can save my find-replace commands and just call them up for the next publication. By the way: I use TextSoap for my cleaning and sometimes, late at night, dream of the good old Corel Database Publisher — best importer I have ever useed!
  12. I really like the PDF export and am fine with the speed and everything, but the file sizes are SO MUCH BIGGER than from the competition, that it starts hindering my workflow. I don't mind the size of a high-res print file, but there should definitely be a setting equal to other applications "smallest file size" -- many of my customers want to have their publications online for download on their website and large files are just really inconvenient. I have tried setting the image resolution and JPG quality down, subsetted fonts and restricted the Acrobat version to 8 (my normal tricks to save a couple bytes), but the files are still monstrous compared to ,other software'. What exactly is blowing up the file size? Maybe I'm just missing a setting?
  13. Is there a way to import the app settings from the ,normal' version into the beta (or even better: use the same settings file)? I have set up some export and colour options for Publisher and it's a bit annoying that I have to do that again for the beta, especially since Serif recommends using the beta instead of the release version because of the fixed bugs and such ...
  14. Title says it all ... I forget to switch from "all spreads" to "all pages" EVERY. SINGLE. TIME. and have to create every PDF twice. Would be great, if this setting could be set to a standard and being saved within the app (not per document).
  15. Hi, I have been working in Publisher for a couple of weeks now and had something to do in Designer yesterday ... I could SWEAR that some paragraph settings (e.g. hyphenation) are missing that were there before the Publisher release. Is it just me or have some of the text settings actually been removed from Designer when Publisher came out?
  16. For a first release, Publisher is fantastic and I have started using it for some smaller brochures and calendars ... holds up nicely. While there is no file combining book option (yet?), you can substiture with the "sections" for now. Main readon why the booknfeaturenwas/is needed in InDesign is that the computernquitenquickly runs out of gas when files get big(ish) -- with affinity that hasn't happened to me yet. Here in the forums some people from Serif have said, that InDesign (IDML) import is being worked on, no release date yet. If you want something for books, take a second look at Quark XPress, they have quite upped their game lately and you can get a full version for around $600. Quark has books and InDesign import working and it cones without a subscription (but with the option tonpay $120 per year for all updates and upgrades - when you stop paying this fee, you get to keep the most recent version you own. Quick edit: I prefer Publisher, but as I teach "design stuff" I keep up with Quark and InDesign, just in case I need the knowledge.
  17. Correct -- but this thread is about what you call line art and the fact that the Affinity Suite cannot do it (yet?).
  18. 1bit images are pure black and white images with only one colour (black) -- no greyscale, no shades, no gradients, no RGB, no CMYK, just plain black and white.
  19. Not being a native speaker, I didn't find the features in InDesign when I first started using it, because I expected "Rules" to include settings on how to handle a paragraph (keep lines together, start in new frame and such) and was not sure at all what they meant with "Shading" (I expected some shadow related features). In Affinity, I found the decorations easily and therefore prefer this term. It could be a bit more toned down (Markups? Accolades? Markers? Accentuations?), but generelly I prefer it to Rules and Shading. To answer your question, Bilbo Bowman, the background colouring you are looking for is activated by clicking the fifth (last) button in the decorations panel (the first four buttons are for rules / lines on the four sides of the paragraph, the last button makes a ,fill colour' selector pop up further down in the dialogue).
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