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Or, bye and bye, try the PdfCompressor eval and get some serious PDF compression results with no perceptual image degradation. http://www.cvisiontech.com/cvistapdf.html Ari Ari Gross CVISION Technologies, LLC phone: 718-793-5572 fax: 718-793-4749 cell: 917-402-5572 Web: http://www.cvisiontech.com -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Lynn Mead Sent: Thursday, February 26, 2004 5:07 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [PDF] Huge PDF files from quark 6 (on mac) The PDF list is a service provided by PDFzone.com | http://www.pdfzone.com __________________________________________________________________ It is possible to have EPS images that contain rasterized information too. In these cases I believe that any distiller settings for downsampling and compression are _NOT_ applied to the raster information inside the EPS. Lynn >Rich Sprague wrote: "2. Use tiff files, rather than eps for images." > >************************* > >I'd be careful here. I've had much better results with EPS images than with >TIFF images. TIFF is a raster image format, where EPS is a vector format. >When Acrobat 6 PDFs my TIFF images, they tend to be of a lower quality in >the PDF whereas my EPS remain very high quality in the PDF. For example, >our corporate logo in TIFF is horrible when PDFd, but when PDFd from EPS it >looks great. Same is true of the drawings I get from our engineering group. >If I get them in TIFF format, once PDFd they quickly break up into pixels >when zoomed in on, but if I get them in EPS format, I can zoom in as far as >Acrobat will allow with no breakup in clarity. I've seen people take >beautiful artwork from Illustrator and rasterize into TIFF, and that's a >shame. My printer is always urging me to use the EPS format unless I am >truly in a BMP realm (such as screen captures). > >I'm not saying to not give TIFF a try, but I'd give the resultant PDF a >very close look to see if the quality of the TIFF images held up well >during the PDF process. > >By the by, you could try the PDF Enhancer >(http://www.apago.com/PDF_Enhancer) on your 54 MB file. I have not had good >luck with this tool (it really hurt my BMP and TIFF images). But the ten >day trial is free and you might get good results. And, it sure made the PDF >file size smaller. (It is also annoying that I cannot run PDF Enhancer on >my WIN2000 box unless I am in the Administrator mode.) > >Or, as I often do, I just live with the large PDF size because I want the >print quality to be as high as possible. > >Regards, >Richard > > > > >To change your subscription: >http://www.pdfzone.com/discussions/lists-pdf.html To change your subscription: http://www.pdfzone.com/discussions/lists-pdf.html To change your subscription: http://www.pdfzone.com/discussions/lists-pdf.html
