richh Posted March 29, 2020 Share Posted March 29, 2020 Is this the way things are supposed to be? I have the latest version (1.82.630) of the 3 Affinity apps. I started off in Designer, created a 7.5x9.5 (300 dpi) page and placed 5 little JPG files (each a max 1200 pixels wide with a file size of about 200k) and 3 frame text objects on it. I exported an image from it and then saved the .afdesign file. I looked at that file’s size and saw that it was about 6 MB! Rasterizing the images into pixel layers, of course, made the file larger (11 mb). Just for grins I tried similar things in Xara (1.2 MB), Corel Draw (11 mb) and MS Publisher (1.2 MB). I held off on Affinity Publisher till last figuring it would be similar to the .afdesign result. It turned out that the .afpub file was only 800k in size. Why was the .afdesign file so big even when images were placed? Why the difference between .afdesign and .afpub? -Richard Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
walt.farrell Posted March 29, 2020 Share Posted March 29, 2020 58 minutes ago, richh said: Why was the .afdesign file so big even when images were placed? Why the difference between .afdesign and .afpub? Designer Embeds a complete copy of the Placed file into the .afdesign file, as it is designed to do. Publisher offers the ability to Link a file (which is the default choice), which only places a reference (pointer) to the Placed file in the .afpub file. That takes less space. 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...
richh Posted March 29, 2020 Author Share Posted March 29, 2020 Thanks for the explanation. I kinda wish there was an option to have them come in linked to Designer and have them converted when one does anything more elaborate than just pushing them around on a page. Fortunately with Publisher and its Designer and Photo personas I have what I need. -Richard Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
walt.farrell Posted March 29, 2020 Share Posted March 29, 2020 You're welcome. 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...
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