On Sat, Jan 23, 2010 at 1:03 PM, Ian Whitfield <editor at federalsaints.net> wrote: > I just joined the List and found your discussion with Greg on this subject. > I had found and tried the command line method to convert to PS and then back > to PDF. The PS file came in at 20Mb but the new PDF file is 136Mb and takes > about a minute to open each page. Reading your advise I tried Acroread but > no difference.
It will get larger if you use a lot of alpha transparency, because it gets flattened, causing the file size to grow exponentially. > So I tried your 'full' method - open original in Acroread and print to file. > That works but when I run the conversion command it takes a while to exit > and gives me just ONE blank page!!!!! > > Any thoughts on this.... all I need is to reduce the file size by about half > - otherwise the graphics suffer!! What do your graphics look like? Reducing the size of a PDF is highly dependent on what your page contents look like, and there are no rules there. -- Branko Vukeli? http://foxbunny.tumblr.com/ http://www.flickr.com/photos/16889956 at N04/ http://www.twitter.com/foxbunny http://github.com/foxbunny
