Benjito Posted November 18, 2021 Share Posted November 18, 2021 Hi at all, I'm a new member in this forum. My name is Ben and I'm German - so I'm sorry for all the mistakes in this text. I work on my first project with Publisher now - the annual magazine from my fishing club. I use all my Affinity software (photo and publisher) on a MacBook Air M1 with 16GB Ram. So far I worked with InDesign on this project, but because of the high costs I chanced. The workflow in Publisher is very easy for me. And with a little help from the internet, I have found all the tools and options I need. But there is one thing about the file size I wonder about. My document (afpub) contains 30 pages (page size DIN A5) and it's about 750 MB. The last magazine I produced with InDesign had about 50 pages and 150 MB. So I wonder about, why is the document so big? All pictures are only linked and not embedded. Would be happy, if someone can explain this to me. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joachim_L Posted November 18, 2021 Share Posted November 18, 2021 Welcome to the Affinity forums @Benjito! 1 hour ago, Benjito said: Would be happy, if someone can explain this to me. To my experience .afpub files are smaller than the .indd files. One reason for a bigger file could be, that File > Save History With Document is enabled, that saves all your edits with the file. If this is not the case, try to save as or at one "magic" point APu cleans up the file itself. In what file format are the images linked? 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...
Benjito Posted November 18, 2021 Author Share Posted November 18, 2021 (edited) Hi Joachim, thanks for your comment. I have saved the document with "file => save as..." with a new name. This new document has now 692 MB while the old file has 763 MB. The pictures are all jpg. Edited November 18, 2021 by Benjito Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Benjito Posted November 18, 2021 Author Share Posted November 18, 2021 So this is the reason why I suspect that maybe there must be more settings that affect the size of the document. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
v_kyr Posted November 18, 2021 Share Posted November 18, 2021 See also this somehow related thread here: Publisher file size increased unexpectedly Benjito 1 Quote ☛ Affinity Designer 1.10.8 ◆ Affinity Photo 1.10.8 ◆ Affinity Publisher 1.10.8 ◆ OSX El Capitan ☛ Affinity V2.3 apps ◆ MacOS Sonoma 14.2 ◆ iPad OS 17.2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Benjito Posted November 18, 2021 Author Share Posted November 18, 2021 31 minutes ago, v_kyr said: See also this somehow related thread here: Publisher file size increased unexpectedly thanks a lot for this note. So I will also follow the linked discussion. Hope the Affinity team will find a solution. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff Callum Posted November 18, 2021 Staff Share Posted November 18, 2021 Hi Benjito, This definitely appears to be a newly found bug with M1 Macs. I am following this issue quite closely and will update this thread once I get more info. Thanks Callum stokerg and Benjito 2 Quote Please tag me using @ in your reply so I can be sure to respond ASAP. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ianeverdell Posted January 8, 2022 Share Posted January 8, 2022 @Callum has there been any update to this? This issue is really slowing me down! JosephK 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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