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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
