dev4press Posted January 26, 2020 Share Posted January 26, 2020 I created the new Publisher document, set an image placement policy to 'Prefer Linked', worked on it, and placed 60 images inside, all images are in the Affinity Photo format, taking a total of 2GB. Saved Publisher document is now 2GB, so all images are placed embedded and not linked. I tried saving a new document, again, a new file is 2GB in size. Is there are way to force the Linked policy and have files loaded from disk not embedded in the document? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mac_heibu Posted January 26, 2020 Share Posted January 26, 2020 Actually the embed feature unfortunately only applies to real images (tif, jpg, png, …), not to documents (.afphoto, .afdesign, .pdf, …) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
walt.farrell Posted January 26, 2020 Share Posted January 26, 2020 One of the 1.8 beta improvements is to allow true linking for document files. Until then, linked document files are a combination of embedded and linked. Publisher will know if they are modified externally, and can alert you (or update them automatically, if you've chosen), but it also embeds a copy. kpro 1 Quote -- Walt Designer, Photo, and Publisher V1 and V2 at latest retail and beta releases PC: Desktop: Windows 11 Pro, version 23H2, 64GB memory, AMD Ryzen 9 5900 12-Core @ 3.00 GHz, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Laptop: Windows 11 Pro, version 23H2, 32GB memory, Intel Core i7-10750H @ 2.60GHz, Intel UHD Graphics Comet Lake GT2 and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Laptop GPU. iPad: iPad Pro M1, 12.9": iPadOS 17.4.1, Apple Pencil 2, Magic Keyboard Mac: 2023 M2 MacBook Air 15", 16GB memory, macOS Sonoma 14.4.1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Richard786 Posted January 28, 2020 Share Posted January 28, 2020 I got hit with this at the weekend when try to display a few "linked" pages from a PDF in a Pub file and ended up with a huge file on a shared cloud-based drive with only limited storage space. It's the little things like this that can make Publisher frustrating to use: it's fine for my smaller clients but not yet something I can use for the "heavy lifting" in my day job. Roll on 1.8.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dev4press Posted January 28, 2020 Author Share Posted January 28, 2020 All the issues I had with 1.7.3 are fixed in 1.8 Beta. Hopefully, 1.8 Stable will be released soon. 1.7.3 is way too buggy for any serious (or any other for that matter) use. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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