AlanPickup Posted November 11, 2018 Share Posted November 11, 2018 Hi When I open an eps file size about 2mb file it seems to be increasing to about 37mb in designer, when saved as an afdesigner file even though the image at 100% is less than 20x20cm on screen. When exported as an svg it becomes nearly 67mb. These make the files very slow to work on. I have not worked with eps files before so not sure if I need to do something to bring them down in size when opening. Any help greatly appreciated. The file is from freepik.com 6423.eps Quote Alan Pickup Windows 11 Home all Affinity suite of Apps PC and Gigabyte Laptop 16gb Ram and Nvidia GTX1660 Super on each. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
firstdefence Posted November 11, 2018 Share Posted November 11, 2018 The file looks like it was made in a 3D app and then exported to various formats, one being an eps file, this means there is going to be hundreds of layers by the look. I'm only guessing but I doubt this would help the file size when importing and exporting. Quote iMac 27" 2019 Sequoia 15.0 (24A335), iMac 27" Affinity Designer, Photo & Publisher V1 & V2, Adobe, Inkscape, Vectorstyler, Blender, C4D, Sketchup + more... XP-Pen Artist-22E, - iPad Pro 12.9 (Please refrain from licking the screen while using this forum) Affinity Help - Affinity Desktop Tutorials - Feedback - FAQ - most asked questions Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AlanPickup Posted November 11, 2018 Author Share Posted November 11, 2018 Thanks for that. now the I have looked at the layer groupings I can see what you mean, all though I do not understand the data logic for the size increase between formats. Quote Alan Pickup Windows 11 Home all Affinity suite of Apps PC and Gigabyte Laptop 16gb Ram and Nvidia GTX1660 Super on each. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
firstdefence Posted November 11, 2018 Share Posted November 11, 2018 I've just opened this file up in Illustrator CC and it shows Mesh layers so now I'm thinking its been created in Illustrator and its Affinity that can't handle the import, I've just exported the eps again from Illustrator and it comes out at roughly 3.3MB Affinity still imports it with all of those layer though. Illustrator has a fraction of the layers shown by Affinity Designer. Quote iMac 27" 2019 Sequoia 15.0 (24A335), iMac 27" Affinity Designer, Photo & Publisher V1 & V2, Adobe, Inkscape, Vectorstyler, Blender, C4D, Sketchup + more... XP-Pen Artist-22E, - iPad Pro 12.9 (Please refrain from licking the screen while using this forum) Affinity Help - Affinity Desktop Tutorials - Feedback - FAQ - most asked questions Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
firstdefence Posted November 11, 2018 Share Posted November 11, 2018 Exporting as an SVG gets you a mish mash of pixelated images and vector shapes; not pretty. Exporting as a PDF looks ok on the thumbnail but on importing, Affinity colours all the gradients black. The same with an .ai file which stands to reason as Affinity uses the PDF portion of the file. Quote iMac 27" 2019 Sequoia 15.0 (24A335), iMac 27" Affinity Designer, Photo & Publisher V1 & V2, Adobe, Inkscape, Vectorstyler, Blender, C4D, Sketchup + more... XP-Pen Artist-22E, - iPad Pro 12.9 (Please refrain from licking the screen while using this forum) Affinity Help - Affinity Desktop Tutorials - Feedback - FAQ - most asked questions Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MikeW Posted November 11, 2018 Share Posted November 11, 2018 Until such time as Affinity applications support meshes, they will always be broken down into the separate parts to approximate the mesh gradients. Even when Affinity products can handle mesh fills, it still may not handle an AI file with them. The reason the eps can open in AI with the mesh fills intact is because it contains the original AI data. A saved AI version without the embedded PDF is 256k. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
firstdefence Posted November 11, 2018 Share Posted November 11, 2018 You could try doing some shading of your own with this file. 6423-illyexport.pdf Quote iMac 27" 2019 Sequoia 15.0 (24A335), iMac 27" Affinity Designer, Photo & Publisher V1 & V2, Adobe, Inkscape, Vectorstyler, Blender, C4D, Sketchup + more... XP-Pen Artist-22E, - iPad Pro 12.9 (Please refrain from licking the screen while using this forum) Affinity Help - Affinity Desktop Tutorials - Feedback - FAQ - most asked questions Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AlanPickup Posted November 11, 2018 Author Share Posted November 11, 2018 Thanks everyone for the explanations, fortunately in this case is was not too complicated that my system could not handle it, all be it slowly, and I could manage the alterations to customise and an exported png was sufficient for my final needs. But it is good to know the reasoning so that I can be aware of the complications eps files can present. Quote Alan Pickup Windows 11 Home all Affinity suite of Apps PC and Gigabyte Laptop 16gb Ram and Nvidia GTX1660 Super on each. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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