Craig Bradney wrote: > On Thursday 11 September 2008 21:19:34 Nigel Ridley wrote: >> Craig Bradney wrote: >>> On Thursday 11 September 2008 20:13:42 Xavier Colmant wrote: >>>> 2008/9/11 Nigel Ridley <nigel at rmk.co.il>: >>>>> I have to ask this; >>>>> >>>>> How can I produce a reasonable looking 2 page (A4) PDF file that is >>>>> less than 1 Mb? >>>>> >>>>> I have done everything in the export to PDF to get the file size down >>>>> (resample to 72 DPI etc). >>>> Personally, I resize the pictures I want to use to a size close to the >>>> one used in the final document. >>>> Have also a look at multivalent tools. The compress tool might be >>>> helpful to you (I never tried it, I just used the imposition tool) : >>> How do you know its the images? >>> >>> Try setting the fonts to outline on export as a test. >> Wow! That reduced the file size to a respectable 553.7 KB from 1.3 MB :-) >> What's the difference between 'Embed' and 'Outline'? >> > > Outlining just converts the glyphs to vector format, and throws away the rest > of the font data. That is, it basically turns the letters into images and > removes all ability to select the text etc.
I just opened my 'test' PDF and noticed that the 'fonts' are now an image and can't be selected as text (that's good in one respect - no one can copy the text into a text editor and reuse it - kind of like an imbeded copyright). The downside is that the 'text' loses some of it's quality - it's not 'sharp' anymore. > > Embed dumps the font file into the PDF for reuse by the reader software. One > day we will also have subset where only the use glyphs will be included. Will this keep the quality of the text as sharp as 'embed'? > > Craig > > Nigel -- PrayingForIsrael.net http://www.prayingforisrael.net/
