Printing Tips: Reduce PDF file size / Crop Marks / Bleed

[pawelcichonski]

Hi, kind of feel like newbie with AD yet. Are there any good tips&tricks to reduce the PDF file size, like options that has Illustrator? I got now only Affinity Designer and Photoshop. That kind of settings has Photoshop. But I love vector and would really wish I could make the file size of the pdf's.

 

1) Size:

 

I must say Affinity Designer works amazingly with complex designs, compared to Sketch or iDraw. I've got menu done in Illustrator. The size of the pdf converted is 8mb. The same file exported by AD is 39mb.

 

Was thinking to save these large pdf's and then open them in Photoshop and then export them with reduced size, but don't know how that will affect the project. (UPDATE: Photoshop reduces the pdf only to 28MB).

 

 

 

2) Crop marks? ... well... can make these manually right?

[MEB]

Hello pawelcichonski,

Welcome to Affinity Forums,

Most (if not all) the advanced features mentioned are already on our roadmap to be implemented as free updates.

PDF export (options) will also be improved soon as we will be switching to our own PDF exporter rather than use Apple's one.

[Dave Harris]

Are there any good tips&tricks to reduce the PDF file size, like options that has Illustrator?

 

Not yet. I'm hoping to get something in that area very soon now; maybe next beta. This will still be based on Apple's exporter, but will allow for things like down-sampling of images and control of JPEG quality.

 

Meanwhile, reducing the document DPI may help. Currently any items that get rasterised will use the document DPI.