SamMN

Looks like we might be getting the same issue:

This is still a huge issue, and it's not even consistent. The same file, 2 minutes apart, exact same PDF export settings, literally only change to the document was to add a full stop to one sentence: first file exports at 32MB, second exports at 238MB. WHY?! Link to a post I did back in March about this: It's honestly getting difficult to recommend Publisher for professional use because of how bugged the PDF export is (and the passthrough / transparency bug still hasn't been fixed and that's over a year old). I rolled out Publisher across our company a couple years back, and I'm seriously considering having to recommend we change across to InDesign because of the bugs.

Wondering if there's been anything discovered about this? Is the huge file just a bit broken and needs to be redone from scratch? Is there anything in particular which caused the ballooning file size?

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I realise this is a tale as old as time, but I'm struggling to get my head around why two documents with similar images and page length have wildly different file sizes, and export PDF size differences which are, frankly, insane. Both documents link to the same folders on my laptop, both files sit in offline folders. The images all sit in a synced OneDrive folder. First document For context, our company has a document I work on for pitching for business. It's a few years old and has been updated a lot over the years. No history saved. Files are set to prefer linked, but some are embedded. Pages are 210mm x 210 mm (but set to spread, so 420mm wide). 300 DPI. 42 pages total (single page count, but they're set in spreads) Embedded files total ~7 MB (8 files, all vector; EPS, SVG) Linked files total ~45 MB (29 files, mostly JPG or PNG, some vector) File size of the Publisher document is 567 MB. Export to PDF, (default settings) Digital (High Quality): 709 MB Second document Fresh document (first created a couple of months ago), same page size, DPI setting, no history saved. Fresh file, but I copy / pasted pages (text, images) from the first document (as it's another pitch, but more tailored). 54 pages total (again, that's single page count, but document is in spreads) Embedded files total ~9 MB (11 files, same vectors as other doc, plus a 1 or 2 others and 2 JPG) Linked files total ~44 MB (32 files, again mostly the same JPGs and PNGs, some vector) File size of the publisher document is 233 MB Export to PDF, (default settings) Digital (High Quality): 94 MB Those differences are nuts. Is the first document file essentially broken and needs starting afresh? Is the second document more the sort of file size you should expect from a Publisher document? (it still strikes me as quite high?)

Yeah can confirm this is still an ongoing issue (appears on Mac OS Sonoma too) and pretty significant bug. Surprised it's not been fixed.

If it's useful, I've also experienced disappearing graphics (PDFs, SVG, etc), noted here: The files are all hosted locally on my machine (though some have sat in a synced OneDrive folder), and affects both linked and embedded graphics. I've not been able to determine any pattern as to what causes some graphics to disappear and others to work fine.

I realise this post is from a while ago so would've thought this had been patched by now, but I think something like this is still occurring. My colleague and I are both running the latest version of Affinity Publisher 2 (2.4.0), both on Mac OS Sonoma, but we get consistently different results when opening the same EPS file (attached). With both our colour profiles set to FOGRA39 for CMYK, and sRGB for RGB, when I open the attached file I get a pure black logo (CMYK8, all values 0 apart from K which is 100). Colleague gets all values 0 apart from K which is 50. Though I'm not sure why we're getting different results when we're running the same version of Publisher on the same settings (etc)? Degruyter logo.eps

Seems to happen with every file I've tried. Open a file in Publisher, close the window (as in, click the red close button at the top left of the window), then click on Publisher icon in the dock to reopen the Publisher window. The file is still active in all the panels, but the actual document is nowhere to be seen. Double clicking on any of the layers in the layers panel to go to the layer crashes Publisher every time. Mac OS Sonoma 14.2.1, Macbook Pro M2 Max 32GB Publisher 2.3.1 (To be clear, I'm not quitting out of Publisher and relaunching, just closing and re-opening the window)

Apparently it's not only PDFs that I'm getting this invisibility issue. See screenshots. So on instance this it seems to be that the Page Box setting is causing the issue. But not for every image. One logo has no issue being set to the default TrimBox, but the others have to be changed to another setting to get them to appear. The last time I had this file open the boxes were all on the default TrimBox (as far as I'm aware, I definitely didn't change them from a default), and they all displayed correctly.

Couldn't think of a decent name. Been trying out a Photoshop tutorial and converting the techniques to Affinity Photo, had to do a bit of jerryrigging as there was one particular bit I wasn't sure how to replicate, but the result mostly worked! Anyway, this is the first attempt. Idea was to make it look like an old CRT monitor that you get in awesome 80's sci fi films. Original stock photo can be found here for comparison.

Ah yes, option 1 fixed it! Is there an article or something on why a non-aligned pixel causes that visual behaviour I could read? Just out of interest / curiosity.

Maybe there's a good explanation for this and I'm missing something, but Photo seems to be adding in extra colours to an Affinity file when you open it in Photo. See screenshots of the same file in all 3 programs (originally created in Designer). Black background, with 3 rectangle shapes set to different levels of black. Nice and simple. The whole thing is 100 x 100 pixels, the rectangles were created as smart shapes. I've attached the file in question. Why do the rectangles in Photo have different shaded grey lines on the left and right side of the shape? Mac OS Sonoma 14.1.2, on an Macbook Pro M2 Max, 32GB RAM Pixel pattern.afdesign

This also occurs if you have Publisher open on a second screen and quit out from that second screen, but reopen the app with only the native screen active. As someone that has to jump between having a laptop screen, and having a laptop screen + second monitor, this is a frequent issue so would love this to get fixed!

Sonoma 14.1.2 on an M2 Max, 32GB memory. In case it's relevant, Publisher is open on a second screen. (I've just discovered) Zooming in and out seems to occasionally make it pop back in too. Interestingly when I copy/pasted everything from the troublesome page on to a brand new file to test, the first page didn't display, and then deleting some of the text boxes made half the first page show up, zooming in then made the whole first page appear again.