VERY BIG EPS and SVG files from this AD project

[Spyart]

Hello! I really don't know why this file is going too big after exporting, please help!

Doodle organic.afdesign

[Sean P]

Hi Spyart,

Your document uses a lot of curve objects that contain both a Textured Line Style and modified pressure curves. This is normally the case of what happens when using a Tablet with the Vector Brush Tool.

To get these kinds of objects to export correctly to SVG the curves need to be expanded to closed shapes to ensure the document looks the same. This means that many nodes are being created per object which is increasing the size dramatically. For example 1 of these object in your document goes from 717 bytes on export to SVG, to 8 KB when it has both a pressure curve and a Textured Line Style, because of the large amount of nodes that are being added. This is something that is already with development to improve so it is not creating many pointless nodes.

The other issue with your document is that in some areas you've used a Vector Brush Texture which SVG does not support so it has to rasterize those areas again to look the same. As your document is 15,000 x 15,000 pixels it is rasterising them at quite a large resolution which gets embedded into the SVG. These images look to be around a size of 3000 x 3500 pixels, so adding quite a bit to the document size.

As the document is predominately vector vased you can get away with a much smaller document size. For example I changed your document size from 15,000 x 15,000 pixels to 1500 x 1500 pixels and this gave a filesize of 16 MB instead of around 47 MB with very little quality loss.

Hope that helps!