Publisher file size

[bluegreen]

I’ve been creating small test documents to compare the size of CS6 InDesign documents to Affinity Publisher 1.10 documents. I’m working on Windows 10. In all the tests, I am linking the assets rather than embedding. When I place JPGs or PNGs the Publisher files are smaller than the InDesign files. Yay! But when I place PDFs the Publisher file is significantly larger than the InDesign file. On the order of 4-5 times larger!! Which quickly becomes a problem because of huge file sizes. The PDFs are set to PDF Passthrough.

Does anyone have any idea what’s going on? Or what I can do to keep files to a reasonable size? I’m regularly faced with Publisher files over 100 MB which become hard to work with. Help!

[Lee D]

File sizes are going to be different when comparing between two different apps from seperate developers even with similar contents as everything is handled differently. You can save some space by linking resources instead of embedded as you've found, apart from that there isn't much that can be done. The same applies to exports, our export engine is going to handle things differently to how Adobe exports, meaning file sizes are going to differ but the apps are designed to handle larger files.