And it’s coming from inside the document! Ta-da! But seriously, this was the first time I have been given artwork created in Figma to use in illustrator and the 45 Mb source document is now over 3 GB in size. So I have eliminated all but two elements and gotten it down to just under 900 Mb, but for what it is that’s still way too high. So either the two remaining speech balloons, or the QR codes are jacked right up coming out of Figma. Haven’t had the chance to figure out which is the culprit — yet. But I intend to because these ridiculously high file sizes will greatly impede my ability to upload them once approved for printing. I would say that 200 Mb each would be big as far as I’m concerned, let alone multiple gigs each. Yikes!
But deadlines are looming and I may not have the luxury of pulling each item apart to see which is the memory hole since I didn’t create the elements in question, and I don’t have any experience with Figma beyond a cursory exploration of the website about two weeks ago. It’s supposed to be vector based, so maybe it uses an absolute shit tonne of points which makes the sizes so large for even the simplest of objects. I don’t know. Maybe it’s an artifact of exporting for Adobe Illustrator. I just don’t know at this point.
Otherwise it’s Tuesday and the kids are heading back to school after four full days off. My back is a little lumpy after running the Bobcat & raking leaves for hours on end to help clean up this weekend. We’re almost out of groceries but I’m too busy to go shopping today. Will have to do with no milk, juices and snacks for another day or two.
Take care out there. Ciao Bella!
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