How Large Of A File Can Affinity Designer on iPad handle?

[HereForTheTea]

Hi, I’m considering switching over to an iPad Pro to use Affinity Designer with. I currently use inDesign on a MacBook Pro to link over 500 images That are about 15mb each. I eventually export this document - that ends up being over a hundred pages long - into a secured PDF to send out. I’m wondering if

1. The iPad Pro will be able to handle a document this large?

2. Exporting to interactive PDFs (with bookmarks) supported?

[Callum]

Hi HereForTheTea,

Welcome to the forums,

It is not possible to create protected or interactive PDFs with Designer I'm afraid. However it should in theory be able to handle a document like that on iPad performance wise.

Thanks

Callum

[DM1]

On 4/5/2020 at 4:39 PM, HereForTheTea said:

I eventually export this document - that ends up being over a hundred pages long - into a secured PDF to send out. I’m wondering if

Check out Readdle (Documents/PDFExpert pro) for iOS. These easily handle 100page PDF docs and you can set up bookmarks and links to pages, images and URL in secured document.

[HereForTheTea]

Thanks Callum, I’m currently working on a file on my MacBook with Publisher and the file size came up close to 1GB with images embedded, (200+ art boards). It slowed my MacBook down significantly by this point, using up around 10GB of RAM. Hoping this won’t happen on iPad. 

[HereForTheTea]

On 4/7/2020 at 10:03 PM, Callum said:

Hi HereForTheTea,

Welcome to the forums,

It is not possible to create protected or interactive PDFs with Designer I'm afraid. However it should in theory be able to handle a document like that on iPad performance wise.

Thanks

Callum

Thanks Callum, I’m currently working on a file on my MacBook with Publisher and the file size came up close to 1GB with images embedded, (200+ art boards). It slowed my MacBook down significantly by this point, using up around 10GB of RAM. Hoping this won’t happen on iPad.