Nico Posted March 28, 2017 Share Posted March 28, 2017 Hello guys, I wanted to know if anyone has experience with Designer projects containing huge amount of large images like photoalbums? Other applications have functionalities like embedding a low resolution version for preview and link the high resolution externally like I think InDesign and CorelDraw to be used during export. Is Designer performing well with a large amount of artboards with 1-2 GB or more of images or it has got limits/frequent crashes/unbearable sluggish? Cheers Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MikeW Posted March 28, 2017 Share Posted March 28, 2017 While CD can do this, I still wouldn't use a graphic design application for a photo book that was intended for print. I have helped people using AI, CD & XDP to get their files to print. I have also aided ID and QXP users do this--but it wasn't the same type of help. For the graphic design applications, it was just trying to get X number of pages/artboards to go to PDF, then more into another PDF, etc., etc., and then combine the resulting PDFs. With the ID/QXP users it was over technical issues (no inside bleed for some PODs, etc.). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nico Posted March 28, 2017 Author Share Posted March 28, 2017 Thanks Mike, I get that the CD/AI are not meant for this level of print usage as well as Affinity Designer, but I just wanted an opinion on how affinity designer performs loading 100s of jpegs. I have got an unfinished photobook somewhere of my daughter started in CD a while ago that I want to complete and print with an online photo album service (so simple pdf needed with bleed for "full page" pages), and I was thinking to port it to Affinity as I recently got it and as it's based on recent technology, hoping that It could scale well with multiple large files as they claim it can deal easily with very large single files. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MikeW Posted March 28, 2017 Share Posted March 28, 2017 Do remember that JPG files can be heavily compressed. No matter how much compression is used in memory they are uncompressed. So while on-disk the sum total may be X large, loaded into an application such as AD that cannot link images they will really be Y large. If I were doing this in AD, I would plan on how the book lays out. I would create 16 or 32 page files and plan where and how the images that bleed to facing pages (if any) and make certain they were within these "signature" files. Once done and each file is output to PDF, I would then combine those PDFs. Also do check with the POD you are using I think most all now do not want inside bleed. They instead desire a clean glue surface (no ink and this cannot be done as easily as one would like in most any application. It's a PITA we all live with. It likely can be done in reasonable-sized chunks like described without taxing the system too much. If you have CD, though, and the images are currently linked and I did not have access to page layout software, I would use it--but even so I would do it in chunks. It's just with linked images there is less chance of file corruption and the response will always be snappier. So make sure to save out incremental copies as you work--I do that even with jobs in a layout application as well. I dislike redoing work. Mike Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nico Posted March 31, 2017 Author Share Posted March 31, 2017 Cool, thank you, makes sense to divide by section, in my case probably by month to make sure filesizes are in check. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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