BinBerlin13 Posted October 22 Share Posted October 22 Finally about a year ago I cancelled my full Adobe subscription and am fully committed to the Publisher 2. For my needs I have generally no regrets. A very common task for me ist creating some kind of portfolio/lookbook PDFs (I am a photographer) to send out to clients or potential clients. I habe been looking around this forum but can not find a solution anywhere. The exported PDFs, only large enough for screen viewing coming from Publisher 2 are way too large. My standard setting: About 8-10 pages in A4, 144dpi rasterised, all images larger than 144dpi will be reduced in size, JPG compression 75%, minimal amount of text (my Logo, my adress, and possibly 5 lines). Fonts and layers are not included. Never ever was I able to produce e PDF smaller than 34MB, whilst the same thing from Indesign is around 3,5MB, including links and the font. There is something fundamentally wrong here and I am desperate for solutions. The last time I actually went ahead and exported all pages as JPGs with the same settings and added them together to an PDF in another application, and voila, I had a document with the expected 3.2MB for an 8 page document. Anybody here who has a solution? I have tried about any possible settings and I am not exactly a beginner with this kind of apps so I think the problem is within Affinity Publisher. I have found online similar complaints but it seems those haven't been addressed yet. I would be extremely grateful for suggestions and woul ideally love to hear from Affinity directly. Attached is a screenshot with my settings. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff Lee D Posted November 11 Staff Share Posted November 11 @BinBerlin13 Welcome to the forums. If you can provide a copy of your .afpub file I can take a look to see if anything may be causing the larger than expected PDF sizes. Using a quick test document of 10 pages 300DPI RGB/8 using sRGB colour profile. Each page has a single image inserted (300DPI/sRGB) and some text below each image. When exported to PDF using the settings from your screenshot the exported PDF is around 2MB. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SamMN Posted November 11 Share Posted November 11 I'd also recommend turning off 'Convert Image Colour Spaces', as that always seems to unreasonably bump up the file size when I have that ticked. Changing the PDF version has helped in the past too (Compatibility). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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