petersdarby Posted January 19 Share Posted January 19 I'm using Affinity Publisher 1.10.5 on an M1 MacBookPro Creating an 80-page magazine with many photos. In similar Indesign jobs the file size would be around 150Mb. The file size for the Publisher document is over 9Gb, and the laptop is struggling when outputting print-ready PDFs (file size of the 300dpi PDF is about 600Mb, which is normal). All images are linked and not embedded. Can I do anything about this? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
loukash Posted January 19 Share Posted January 19 Have you possibly enabled "Save history with document"? That might explain the size. Quote MacBookAir 15": MacOS Ventura > Affinity v1, v2 // MacBookPro 15" mid-2012: MacOS El Capitan > Affinity v1 / MacOS Catalina > Affinity v1, v2, v2 beta // iPad 8th: iPadOS 16.6 > Affinity v2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
petersdarby Posted January 19 Author Share Posted January 19 1 minute ago, loukash said: Have you possibly enabled "Save history with document"? That might explain the size. Thank you for your response. I checked, and no, Save History is not checked. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
carl123 Posted January 19 Share Posted January 19 35 minutes ago, petersdarby said: All images are linked and not embedded. I think there is a bug where linked document act as they are embedded in some cases The cure for this, I believe, is to use Resource Manager to first embed the linked images, save the document, then link them again and then do a Save as... to a new filename PS I would first make a copy of the document Old Bruce and walt.farrell 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
petersdarby Posted January 19 Author Share Posted January 19 17 minutes ago, carl123 said: The cure for this, I believe, is to use Resource Manager to first embed the linked images, save the document, then link them again and then do a Save as... to a new filename That sounds feasible. I will give it a try. Thanks. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
petersdarby Posted January 19 Author Share Posted January 19 33 minutes ago, carl123 said: The cure for this, I believe, is to use Resource Manager to first embed the linked images, save the document, then link them again and then do a Save as... to a new filename Well that was an eye opener. Firstly, after embedding all the pictures and saving, the file size dropped from 9.38Gb to 2.69Gb. Then after changing back to linked, as Save As created a file of 14.8Mb Perfect, thank you. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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