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pdf of 908 mb anyway to make lighter? - Giacomo - 12-09-2006
I have a catalog in pdf of 908mb, 20 pages there is a program to save the file lighter?
Re: pdf of 908 mb anyway to make lighter? - bazookaman - 12-09-2006
I've reduced a several hundred mb PDF down to several hundred kb using Acrobat's built in "Reduce File Size" feature. On the other hand, I've had it reduce a 6.8mb file to 6.8mb. It really depends on what comprises the PDF.
Re: pdf of 908 mb anyway to make lighter? - WillyB - 12-09-2006
I have used PdfCompress for years....
http://www.metaobject.com/Products.html#PdfCompress
Re: pdf of 908 mb anyway to make lighter? - jdc - 12-09-2006
somebody didnt have the right compression when they made that PDF
908 megs is way too big
Re: pdf of 908 mb anyway to make lighter? - bfd - 12-10-2006
Lotsa layers? Might want to flatten it first.
jdc's right, bfd's never seen a pdf of almost gigabyte status… it's a little more than 45MB per page.
Bet your pics are hi-res - in the 300dpi range… kind of hard to correct that at this stage, but you could go into PS and resize the images to 100 dpi or so.
Do you need this catalog to work for some kind of art printing?
Re: pdf of 908 mb anyway to make lighter? - jdc - 12-10-2006
dammit, closed my window, not typing it all again
recently did a poster, 30 X 60 -- 95 and 75 meg tifs and 80 meg illustrator file put into a Quark document, PDF was 19.1 megs
Re: pdf of 908 mb anyway to make lighter? - onthedownlow - 12-10-2006
Acrobat 8.0 has a nice 'optimization' feature that helps quite a bit.
Re: pdf of 908 mb anyway to make lighter? - WillyB - 12-10-2006
Automator has a workflow piece that allows you to choose the compression level of your pdf. Automator is just so cool!
Re: pdf of 908 mb anyway to make lighter? - Giacomo - 12-11-2006
thanks!
I used the program and it went down in size a lot!!.
no the pdf I need to put in a cd with other catalogs.
thanks
again