cosmoartist

I've had similar issues working with artboards and exporting as PDF. It is incredibly slow. I have 21 artboards each holding a single image. When I print it, regardless of how low the resolution, it is way too slow on my laptop. Then I try using 3 artboards at a time, each with a single image inside, and when I export as PDF, the same thing happens – takes forever. Whenever I use more than one artboard, exporting as PDF becomes a torture, which should be the easiest thing to do. Programs like Preview do it automatically. Affinity Designer does very well quality-wise, but takes too long. I wonder how I can use so many artboards at once without slowing it down, but as soon as I export anything in PDF, not only it takes forever, as it does not give me a proper visual of the progress for rendering the PDF. It just stays there without moving. Also, as in this thread, calculating file sizes is so slow that I rarely ever wait for it, and you can start exporting before that number comes up. If the program is exporting the file in the background just to figure this number out, that might explain why everything becomes so slow – why not just give a ball park figure instead of having to mock export the file on the background just to display a number? It seems like an awful waste of processing power... In any case, I love this program, and I would never go Adobe, as I find them unethical – period – charging yearly subscriptions for their software is just wrong and it should be illegal. So, Affinity is the way to go – I hope you surpass Adobe soon! And I hope also that some of these issues can be solved, as these Affinity applications are absolutely the best I've ever worked with, all things considered. Yet, I would be doing my work 20x faster if the export features were more efficient. Thank you!