blw Posted November 18, 2018 Share Posted November 18, 2018 Is there any documentation on the various export options? I'm specifically interested in the PDF options. I don't generally look at the PDF that's generated, but when I generate PDF for web, I get a 45MB file. It pixelizes badly, which I am not too surprised at given 45MB and 300 images. On the other hand, if I export "for export" I get a 950MB file. I can guess that this simply takes all of the files at maximum resolution. But what about PDF/x4, which presumably is intended to go to print? It's 68MB, although "export for print" yields 170MB. I have done a reasonable amount of due diligence - export doesn't yield anything in Help->Publisher Help, and the google hits on this turn up mostly in foreign languages and don't appear to be too relevant to publisher. I'm on the latest .174 on a Mac running Mojave. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vonBusing Posted November 20, 2018 Share Posted November 20, 2018 I would look at the resolution set for export (in dpi) and especially the jpg compression level for each preset. That later can impact quite a lot on generated file size if you have many images. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris_K Posted November 21, 2018 Share Posted November 21, 2018 HI blw The main differences is the DPI ans vonBusing mentions and how many of the elements are flattened, as well as things like transparency. Export and print set the dpi to document resolution for raster elements, web sets it to 72dpi. Flatten rasterises the entire document into a single image. PDF X hav different standards as to what can be kept as vector and what has to be rasterised along with things like colour modes It's these variations that attribute to the differing PDF file sizes Cheers vonBusing 1 Serif Europe Ltd - Check the latest news at www.affinity.serif.com Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blw Posted November 23, 2018 Author Share Posted November 23, 2018 Useful information, thanks. (It ought to be in the help somewhere!) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thomaso Posted November 23, 2018 Share Posted November 23, 2018 52 minutes ago, blw said: ... (It ought to be in the help somewhere!) See: Affinity Publisher Beta Help > Publishing and Sharing > PDF Publishing > Publishing PDF Files: Choose a PDF Preset and a Raster DPI to set the resolution for rasterization of effects on export. Presets include: PDF (for export)—Exports to PDF 1.7 (Acrobat 8) at document resolution, no image downsampling, overprint on, embed all fonts and use (and embed) document profile as colour space. PDF (for print)—Exports to PDF 1.7 (Acrobat 8) at 300 DPI, image downsampling to 450 DPI, overprint on, embed all fonts, use (and embed) document profile as colour space, allow advanced features. PDF (for web)—Exports to PDF 1.7 (Acrobat 8) at 72 DPI, image downsampling to 108 DPI and sRGB colour space. PDF (for flatten)—Exports to PDF 1.7 (Acrobat 8) at document resolution, rasterises all content, no image downsampling, overprint on, embed all fonts and use (and embed) document profile as colour space. PDF (PDF/X-1a:2003), PDF (PDF/X-3:2003), PDF (PDF/X-4)—Exports using pro print PDF presets that conform to specific CMYK print standards. macOS 10.14.6 | MacBookPro Retina 15" | Eizo 27" | Affinity V1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thomaso Posted November 23, 2018 Share Posted November 23, 2018 In this help text are two resolutions mentioned for some presets. I just tried them and noticed that the first value in the help text is the one which ends up in the PDF. – But what is the second resolution value, which says "downsampling to ..." ? – Might it mean "downsampling if larger than ..." ? macOS 10.14.6 | MacBookPro Retina 15" | Eizo 27" | Affinity V1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blw Posted November 23, 2018 Author Share Posted November 23, 2018 > See: Affinity Publisher Beta Help > Publishing and Sharing > PDF Publishing > Publishing PDF Files: Oh. Maybe then I mean better indexing. I looked for export - which of course is the command involved. vonBusing 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff acapstick Posted December 7, 2018 Staff Share Posted December 7, 2018 Hi blw, I'll get that indexing looked at and ensure export is included in the topic's metadata. \Andy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff acapstick Posted December 7, 2018 Staff Share Posted December 7, 2018 thomaso - i've tweaked the help now.. PDF(for web): change "image downsampling to 450 dpi" to "downsample images of >450 dpi"PDF (for print): change change "image downsampling to 108 dpi" to "downsample images of >108 dpi" Andy Capstick Affinity docs Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Robin3 Posted January 10, 2019 Share Posted January 10, 2019 On 11/23/2018 at 6:39 PM, thomaso said: See: Affinity Publisher Beta Help > Publishing and Sharing > PDF Publishing > Publishing PDF Files: Choose a PDF Preset and a Raster DPI to set the resolution for rasterization of effects on export. Presets include: PDF (for export)—Exports to PDF 1.7 (Acrobat 8) at document resolution, no image downsampling, overprint on, embed all fonts and use (and embed) document profile as colour space. PDF (for print)—Exports to PDF 1.7 (Acrobat 8) at 300 DPI, image downsampling to 450 DPI, overprint on, embed all fonts, use (and embed) document profile as colour space, allow advanced features. PDF (for web)—Exports to PDF 1.7 (Acrobat 8) at 72 DPI, image downsampling to 108 DPI and sRGB colour space. PDF (for flatten)—Exports to PDF 1.7 (Acrobat 8) at document resolution, rasterises all content, no image downsampling, overprint on, embed all fonts and use (and embed) document profile as colour space. PDF (PDF/X-1a:2003), PDF (PDF/X-3:2003), PDF (PDF/X-4)—Exports using pro print PDF presets that conform to specific CMYK print standards. When exporting to PDF almost all images in all export options are rasterised, in my cases. Looks like the beta version is not capable yet to handle images as it should when it comes to a final release? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff acapstick Posted January 10, 2019 Staff Share Posted January 10, 2019 Hi Robin3, Raster images (JPG, PNG, etc) are raster anyway - the export options only affect downsampling of those in different ways. Do you mean if you placed a vector image such as SVG you were expecting some level of edibility after export but you didn't get any? I'll investigate further if so. \AndyC Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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