Heavy documents

[victorv64686696]

Since a couple of days my Adobe Illustrator documents are extremely heavy after saving them. For instance an empty A4-page with only one word is 1.163.032 bytes.

What's wrong? Victor

[Ton Frederiks]

That seems normal.

The file is not really empty, but contains color swatches, patterns, brushes, symbols styles, color profiles and a version of the file as PDF.

If you remove those it would probably be around 60 kb.

There is a default action to remove unused panel items and the other things can be turned off when saving.

I do not suggest that that is a good idea though...

[Scott Falkner]

https://forums.adobe.com/people/Ton+Frederiks  wrote

…I do not suggest that that is a good idea though...

I do. I have no need for the default swatches, patterns, gradients , or brushes in Illustrator files. In fact I have removed them from the default files so I don’t even have to run the action for files I create. If I ever have call for them they are available in the Window menu or from the appropriate flout menu from each panel.

[Ton Frederiks]

I agree with you on the unused panel items, but saving with the pdf part can be useful.