dsaunier Posted May 6, 2022 Share Posted May 6, 2022 I have just started on a book layout. So far I only have 31 pages of text. No images of any kind. The Publisher file size is a measly 153K (as you would expect for text only). When I export (and I have tried a variety of PDF export presets and other settings), the file size balloons to 24-26MB! All other topics I have seen on this issue seem to relate to images and color space. What could be going on here? Thanks in advance! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Bruce Posted May 6, 2022 Share Posted May 6, 2022 If there are no images then I would expect you have exported and chosen to convert the fonts (text) to curves. Quote Mac Pro (Late 2013) Mac OS 12.7.4 Affinity Designer 2.4.1 | Affinity Photo 2.4.1 | Affinity Publisher 2.4.1 | Beta versions as they appear. I have never mastered color management, period, so I cannot help with that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dsaunier Posted May 6, 2022 Author Share Posted May 6, 2022 Thank you! I do not see a place to control that setting. Where would that be? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dsaunier Posted May 6, 2022 Author Share Posted May 6, 2022 Oh I found it, but it doesn't seem to be the case... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dsaunier Posted May 6, 2022 Author Share Posted May 6, 2022 Then again, when I look at the file in Acrobat, it does indeed seem to have exported text as curves. You can see here, the block that says "introduction" is text and the body text below is curves. No idea how this happened. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dsaunier Posted May 6, 2022 Author Share Posted May 6, 2022 I got to the bottom of this. When I changed the font of the body text, everything exported as expected. I suppose I did not have the font in question installed, though weird how I could select it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hart_art Posted May 27, 2022 Share Posted May 27, 2022 Instead of exporting as a PDF, try using the "print to PDF" feature. Its an option for newer versions of Windows; otherwise you can download an app (like CutePDF). Go under Print, and then select "print to PDF." I've found the PDFs to be a lot smaller going this way. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lacerto Posted May 28, 2022 Share Posted May 28, 2022 On 5/6/2022 at 6:56 PM, dsaunier said: I suppose I did not have the font in question installed, though weird how I could select it. The font might have been Garamond (Monotype), that comes with Microsoft Office 365 as a cloud font and is available for Office apps once downloaded (and embeddable when exporting from Office apps) but not directly available for other apps, so if available at all, would be converted to curves when tried to be exported. Pšenda 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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