peterfri Posted March 16, 2021 Share Posted March 16, 2021 Hello there, I made a afpub-file out of an idml. The size in afpub is almost 300 MB, and I have no embedded links. Every placement ist linked. I think the bug is, that AFpub embedds all files, even when they are linked. The size in Indesign is 20 MB. The problem is in every version of Afpub, it is not a problem only in beta. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
walt.farrell Posted March 16, 2021 Share Posted March 16, 2021 It certainly embeds a preview image for each Linked file, but (at least when not using IDML) it does not embed the full Linked image. 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...
peterfri Posted March 17, 2021 Author Share Posted March 17, 2021 Yes I know, but how can I create a normal sized file out of IDML? In the case I reported it embeds high resolution stuff, that is strange. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff Pauls Posted March 17, 2021 Staff Share Posted March 17, 2021 afpub files will store lots of preview and cache information to help with document display - the 2 are not comparable regards size Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
peterfri Posted March 17, 2021 Author Share Posted March 17, 2021 you mean when I produce a new afpub file with the same linked files it will be that huge? When I have time I will do it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joachim_L Posted March 17, 2021 Share Posted March 17, 2021 What I experienced is, that generally .afpub files are smaller than .indd files (at least from CS6 / Windows). Your .afpub file will get smaller at one point, when you clean up the document by optimizing effects or picture frames or ... A 28 pages .indd file with 7884 KB became a .afpub file with 19452 KB after first save. A few clean ups later the file size went down to 4713 KB. Quote ------ Windows 10 | i5-8500 CPU | Intel UHD 630 Graphics | 32 GB RAM | Latest Retail and Beta versions of complete Affinity range installed Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
peterfri Posted March 19, 2021 Author Share Posted March 19, 2021 how do you optimize? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
peterfri Posted March 22, 2021 Author Share Posted March 22, 2021 The behaviour is really strange. I opened the huge file in beta 1.9.2.1014 and resaved it. It became a normal size file of about 30 MB. And all links are the same and linked not embedded. Then I opened the IDML-file with this beta, and it was 240 MB, not 290 MB as in 1.9.1, but again rather big. And all links are the same and linked not embedded. Can someone explain, how these different sizes can happen. And what can I do to reduce the size of the big files without loosing quality? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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