PLPowers

[PLPowers]

I'm on an IMac with Catalina.  I've used InDesign for years had to switch to Affinity as I was on an old version..  I do a 12-16 page publication each month. In InDesign, I had maybe 20 photos sprinkled throughout it in full color dpi'd at 300.  The pdf file came in at only 14.7MBs.  Something went wrong with this issue I'm working on with Affinity.  I started using Affinity in December for January edition and now I'm working on April.  Early on I had this issue.  12 pages, it ballooned up to 23 MBs with hardly any photos. So I started a new document, and copied and pasted one page at a time and exported it to PDF.  And it goes along fine, size change looks appropriate, even with photos, and then it balloons up 5MBs on one page.  There were two  pages that did that, 8 nd 10 if that means anything.  I stripped it down to just headers and text; still did it.  At one point I had brought everything over one page at a time, and on this one page I thought it would be stupid that it was in the text, but I brought that over singly, and like 1/2 page of text, and was surprised when that alone ballooned it up 5 MBs.   What's going on? 

I changed every png to jpg and reduced them down as far as I could.  I have photos and graphics for Easter. On the Resource Manager, I don't understand why the DPI is so high on some...like over 700 when I did photos in 300 and some graphics were 700 and they are small. How is that determined? I also noticed that when starting a new document it says it's set up for 300dpi.  The whole publication? Or just the photos?  Maybe InDesign doesn't require that much for the whole document?  So this is the 5th publication I've done since getting the program, and once before this happened as well. It has to go to publisher tomorrow, so I stripped it down to hardly any photos, took out a bunch of Easter graphics so it's mainly headers and text, and I still can't get it under 20MBs.  

I just uploaded the new version of Affinity, as I didn't want to do it in the middle of this publication and possibly have a problem.  Is there anything in the upgrade that will fix this? 

[Lee D]

Hi @PLPowersSorry for the delay, we were very busy and some posts including yours got missed.

When starting a new document the DPI setting applies to the entire document, that is what it will be exported out as. One thing to know is that PDF export sizes are going to be different when using different apps, this is expected. Ideally with images you want to be importing them at 100% the size you want to use them, this means that no resampling has to take place. 

If you're still having some issues it may be worth uploading one of your .afdesign files so we can take a look. Please also let us know which PDF export settings you're choosing and also insure that the images are embedded (saved) within the file.