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Note2: If I set the effects to 72dpi in Document Raster settings, then I get a drastically reduced file - but then that shows that illustrator is not saving this information as vector (what could be simpler than remembering the colour, the offset and size of blur) but somehow rendering these dropshadows as images.
I've included my save settings that I've used since the beginning. I've been using illustrator since 1989 so I'm pretty au fai with the software and its bugs. But the fact that this happens in the last four iterations of illustrator along with the broken shadows is pretty annoying. I do wish bugs were given as much attention as whatever new generative AI bloat we get added to justify the subscription. But here we are.
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Hi Egor, the artboard is 700x500mm - though the same thing happens with an artboard much smaller.
I'm not using 'Create PDF Compatible file' at all - I never use that. So the drop-shadow information is effectively a vector in that file. It's obviously a bug as even if I dropped in the dropshadows as image files - I wouldn't get a 450MB uncompressed illustrator file.. Or wait over 30 seconds for it to save.
And my 300dpi exported PDF is less than 15MB, so rasters never need to get as big as 450MB.
Basically I have a relatively simple file with 4 dropshadows in it and each instance is adding around 400MB to the file, making it over 2GB, even if I rasterized the entire file at 300dpi and saved it as an uncompressed TIFF is wouldn't as large as my illustrator file with ONE dropshadow (uncompressed).
Now… compressing it helps, but it's still takes too long to save and is obviously compressing that 3GB down. -
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Hi Egor,
To be honest, I always use compression. If you duplicate that romboid 3 or 4 times and save it with compression it will start to slow down to save. I only turned off compression to see what was going on, and that file size will double with each iteration of the drop-shadow (ending up at 3GB per file with my file, but with compression about 11MB but it took far too long to save). But yeah, there's definitely some kind of raster data being saved in the illustrator file.