I'd just like to apologise for the truly awful grammar and narrative
style in the post below. Sheesh.
T.
On 14/07/2005, at 4:10 PM, Toby Oldham wrote:
I just did a few quick test's printing a word X doc (3 pages, words
and pictures) to PDF using Apple's interface (OS X 10.4.2).
- Saving as a plain PDF file 688Kb.
- As a PDF-X (supposedly plate ready print compatible) 752Kb.
- using the 'compress PDF' command (in the same menu) 232Kb.
Now, I'm not saying a 3 page word doc with a few pictures should be
even 232Kb (44Kb would be lovely), but it seems okay to me, and
prints just fine.
I'm taking a guess here, but I think that images dropped into word
docs under windows get converted to MS own image format. Under Mac
version of office they often remain e.g. a tif file embedded in a
word doc. Hence the possible bloat.
I know that Adobe seem to think the best file format to save
graphics dropped into Word is .png (that's what Illustrator uses
when it 'Exports for Microsoft Office') ... you might want to try
re-saving the images in the doc, dropping them back in, then use
the compress pdf option (if you're running 10.4 of course).
The software mentioned by the people in earlier posts is all fine -
I'm just suggesting something that won't cost money (unless of
course you don't have 10.4 heh heh)
Cheers,
Tobes.
On 14/07/2005, at 3:48 PM, Greg Pennefather wrote:
Also have a look at PDF Shrink on Versiontracker for the demo and the
vendor's web site.
I use a couple of tools for PDFs, the wonderful and free Combine PDFs
(specially useful if you print from a Word document with multiple
sections)
and PDF Shrink to reduce the size if you have graphics, lots of
fonts or
anything else that makes the PDF large.
You can also look at PDFLab - it does much the same as Combine
PDFs but is
more powerful (and correspondingly harder to use).
For the casual user these tools are much cheaper than buying Acrobat.
The only things missing are a tool to apply security and one to
edit/markup.
Cheers
Greg
From: Shay Telfer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Thu, 14 Jul 2005 14:25:59 +0800
To: WAMUG Mailing List <wamug@wamug.org.au>
Subject: Re: Size of PDFs created under OSX
Hi,
We were asked to turn a PC-using friend's MSoft Word docs into PDFs
to make them smaller (she needs to email them to multiple
recipients). However, the PDF created by printing under OSX
(10.2.8)
is much larger (5.2Mb) than the original Word document (2.6Mb).
We tried the same file on our other Mac (OS10.3.3) and produced a
slightly smaller file (5.1Mb).
Does anyone know if this is standard for PDFs created in this way,
and if Acrobat produces smaller PDFs than those created under OSX?
Yes, have a look at PDF compress:
<http://www.metaobject.com/Products.html>
Have fun,
Shay
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