Stupid question from me, can I ask why you don't want them embedded?
I am trying to keep the CDR file size down. I successfully used Ventura Publisher for 20 years. There I could choose to leave the picture files external to the publisher document. In creating a 28 page magazine, I was able to produce manageable PDFs for the printer.
Now with CorelDraw 2018, every time I add a picture file internally to the CDR the file size jumps. At the moment, it is over 1GB. The PDF size is out of control.
But I just tested a CDR. With no JPG, the file size is 1991KB.
Adding a JPG of size 5400KB to the CDR, leaving it external, increased the size of the CDR to 16900KB.
I don't get it.
The problem is creating a press quality PDF for the printer. Way too big.
Ventura was a program that knew how to properly link images and format long documents. CorelDRAW will not make you happy with linking images, the best thing you can do is to import, properly size and set resolution for your images in CorelDRAW. Then use the proper PDF publishing settings when exporting. In reality your file content and PDF will be the same as when you used Ventura. The CDR file uses a lossless comprression that is very good and does not take up much space, I have 3GB (in memory) files that take up 200MB on disk.
I am looking for the CorelDraw menu to reduce file size. Where is it? Or is this automatic? My file is over 222,000KB. My print shop is freaking out. The prepress PDF file size is huge. I can break down the PDF into smaller chunks, but they are still each very large. Your comments have been very helpful.
What resolution are the images inside CorelDRAW?
They are TIF files full color 300 dpi. 43 images in a 28 page document. thanks.
Are the images at final size at 300 dpi? becuase if you reduce or enlarge it, the image size will change.
Also, there was a difference according the size of each image. For example, if it was an image of 150x100 mm at 300 dpi CMYK the CDR size should be around 5 Mb for one image, so 43 shoukd be around 250 Mb.