Document size

[petersdarby]

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?

[loukash]

Have you possibly enabled "Save history with document"? That might explain the size.

[petersdarby]

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.

[carl123]

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

 

[petersdarby]

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.

[petersdarby]

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.