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Hello, i am a long time user of affinity publisher version 1 and now 2.
I am in the process of exporting my 3rd volume of my auto-produced magazine which is usually a photographic magazine full of photos, A4 vertical format.
1st volume was 152 pages, 2nd volume was 156 pages, and now i'm doing 148 pages.
I did all of the in affinity publisher.

Now, the problem is the following
I'm trying to export a PDF file as a preview of the finished work, so i set the quality to just 96 dpi.

i chosed to export the file in the D:\ which has 300gb of free space, BUT while it exports, it's filling insanely up the C:\ in which i have 36gb of free space...
It completely fills up the space at 1/2 of the export progress, and then obviously the export crashes.
With affinity v1 and the previous 2 volumes i've never had this problem, despite the larger size of the file.

Can someone help with this non sense filling up of memory??
Otherwise i can't export and sell my project... 

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NO GOOD Update:
i just uninstalled and reinstalled the v2 with my license.
i have tried to export the file at 96dpi again. 
it worked, the file has been exported in D:\ and weights 104mb
BUT Publisher generated a file of 29gb in the temp folder of the C:\ just to export 1 single file of 104mb.

See images attached

If i then have to export it at 300dpi for the print, i'm screwed.............

 

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Posted

Your choices, as I see them, are to:

  1. Free up storage on your C drive; or
  2. Move your .affinity folder. If you want to do that, and are willing to accept a small loss of performance (but no other problems that I've seen), I've given a set of instructions which you can find below.
     

I don't know whether something has changed in your file that causes the processing to create a larger temp file than you got in V1, or if something has changed in V2, or if you simply got lucky in V1 and had more room on the C drive.

-- Walt
Designer, Photo, and Publisher V1 and V2 at latest retail and beta releases
PC:
    Desktop:  Windows 11 Pro 23H2, 64GB memory, AMD Ryzen 9 5900 12-Core @ 3.00 GHz, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 

    Laptop:  Windows 11 Pro 23H2, 32GB memory, Intel Core i7-10750H @ 2.60GHz, Intel UHD Graphics Comet Lake GT2 and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Laptop GPU.
    Laptop 2: Windows 11 Pro 24H2,  16GB memory, Snapdragon(R) X Elite - X1E80100 - Qualcomm(R) Oryon(TM) 12 Core CPU 4.01 GHz, Qualcomm(R) Adreno(TM) X1-85 GPU
iPad:  iPad Pro M1, 12.9": iPadOS 18.5, Apple Pencil 2, Magic Keyboard 
Mac:  2023 M2 MacBook Air 15", 16GB memory, macOS Sequoia 15.5

Posted

@walt.farrell thank you. After freeing at least 50gb on my C it worked. 
The PDF file for printing at 300dpi has ended up weighting 1.65gb.
So good to know that for such large files i need to have at least 50 free gigabytes. 

Or your 2nd option i think that can work very well too.

Thank you for the help.  

Posted

You're welcome.

-- Walt
Designer, Photo, and Publisher V1 and V2 at latest retail and beta releases
PC:
    Desktop:  Windows 11 Pro 23H2, 64GB memory, AMD Ryzen 9 5900 12-Core @ 3.00 GHz, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 

    Laptop:  Windows 11 Pro 23H2, 32GB memory, Intel Core i7-10750H @ 2.60GHz, Intel UHD Graphics Comet Lake GT2 and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Laptop GPU.
    Laptop 2: Windows 11 Pro 24H2,  16GB memory, Snapdragon(R) X Elite - X1E80100 - Qualcomm(R) Oryon(TM) 12 Core CPU 4.01 GHz, Qualcomm(R) Adreno(TM) X1-85 GPU
iPad:  iPad Pro M1, 12.9": iPadOS 18.5, Apple Pencil 2, Magic Keyboard 
Mac:  2023 M2 MacBook Air 15", 16GB memory, macOS Sequoia 15.5

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