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A couple of aspects that influence the size:
inside XPress:
- TIFFs (and JPEGs?) get downsampled to 1.5 or 2.0 times (don't remember
exactly which of the two values applies) the halftone settings (lpi) in
the XPress print dialog
in Distiller:
- set Distiller to downsample images to a target resolution if current
resolution exceeds it by more than 50%:
... for output on a desktop printer 150 dpi or less is abslutely
sufficient
for grayscale and color images
... for bitmap images I'd use 600 dpi or even less
- set Distiller too use automatic compression for color and gray scale
images, and adjust JPEG settings, for office printer output I'd use
something like medium quality; for bitmap images CCITT Fax group 4 is
hust fine, make sure it is activated
- especially if you have lots of fonts in the file, font subsetting is a
good idea (I would always turn font embedding on even if size is an issue
- otherwise too much trouble is waiting for you)
In addition you may want to try out a tool like PDFEnhancer on an already
created PDF file - it has a lot of size optimization features, and I
believe the demo version let's you try this out for a couple of times or
couple of days.
Olaf Druemmer
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>'k, here's the deal. We have a quark brochure for print with eps high res
>images. I don't know how many pages, lots. When we try to generate a pdf,
>we get a 57 mg file. Oh my gawd, this is HUGE! What are key steps in
>taking a high res print file and producing a small pdf that can be
>portable online and yet print ok on a regular office printer/?????
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>Sara
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>I guess my questions would be:
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>1) What do you consider huge?
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>2) What are you starting with? i.e., how many pages, how many images,
>what size are the images, are they 300 dpi?
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>3) Are you printing to a Distiller PPD?
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>Every year I help a client with a 32-page full-color catalog that is
>created by a designer in Quark. His PDF files are like 10-15 mb per
>page...I can make the same PDF at 10% of his file sizes. My guess is that
>the problem is his PPD, although I have yet to get to see how the
>designer makes the PDF (he is a couple of hours away).
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>Any information you can share would be helpful, otherwise your guess is
>as good as mine is.
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>Rich
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>I doubt that XPress objects themselves create huge data volume, Thus I'd
>expect this to be due to some imported file (TIFF, EPS, PDF, ...). Could
>you isolate which of such imported files (if any/if my assumption is
>correct) is causing this?
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>Olaf Druemmer
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>>I seem to recall an issue regarding very large pdf files generated from
>>quark 6. We are also having this problem. It does not seem to matter
>>whether we create the pdf out of quark or send to distiller, file size
>>is HUGE! Please help!
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