Affinity Publisher AFPUB HUGE File Sizes

[StrixCZ]

Hi, can you please do something about the ridiculous AFPUB file sizes?

I'll give you an example:

A 14 page A4 document (a monthly calendar with front and back page) consisting of nothing else than 14 pages of a (linked, not embedded!) PDF (I'm just adding bleed and crop marks to a document). If I do the same thing in InDesign, the INDD file would be <10 MB. AFPUB - a whopping 276(!) MB (which is way more than the PDF I have placed in the document BTW).

Why???

[Leslie A]

Like StrixCZ, the file sizes created by Affinity are ridiculous, and will most likely prevent me from saying goodbye to Adobe Cloud! I've spent hours trying to figure out why an InDesign document is 3.7 MB (with a 17 x 11 PSD placed for the image) and the exact document created from scratch in Publisher is 14.6 MB (using a jpeg NOT the PSD file. The PDFs created by Publisher are also incredibly HUGE. I first imported the IDML; Publisher file created was 30.5 MB. Then, I imported the PDF created using InDesign, that file is 27.4 MB. I am glad I have not upgraded to Affinity suite 2.0, as it looks like ther is no way I can use Publisher with my workflow. All CMYK. I publish a 12" x 24" calendar, andthe PDF created by Publisher is 221 MB, yet the PDF created by InDesign is 60 MB! So unhappy about this, but those file sizes make it impossible to use the Affinity suite for the amount of work I do - I also create a digital magazine, and the .AFPUB files are much much larger than my .INDD files.