> Thanks for the idea. We can't really zip it, though, if we want it to work > within the browsers that come to our web site. > > Similar magazines were about 1.1 meg during the Distiller 3 days. 14.1 megs is > too much if you're serving off a web server. > > I hope that "Quite a box of tricks" will help me with my problem until a patch > is out. This seems like a major bug. Adobe is getting kind of sloppy. They just > released 5.1b of > Adobe Premiere and its has major problems as well. Everybody's been told to wait > for 5.1c. I understand it's nearly impossible to get rid of all bugs--but the > major ones shouldn't exist on commercially released products. Come on, Adobe! > Where's your quality control. > > > > fletcher sandbeck wrote: > >> >> I'm making a PS file that's about 600 Megs. I'm using the screen optimized >> >> settings and adjusting the font embedding to 99%. >> >> >> >> --Charles >> > >> >As I recall, your PDF came down to 14mb. Is that right? This means that your >> >finished size is 2.3% of the ps size. >> > >> >That's a pretty good compression, and I'm not really enough of a rocket >> >scientist to know whether more compression is possible. My guess is that it >> >is likely that the size would be smaller in Distiller 3, but how much, I >> >don't know. >> > >> >That's a bummer, Charles. Sorry I don't have a solution for you. >> >> One good thing to try is Stuffing or Zipping your finished PDF file. >> >> If Adobe has done their job, then very little extra compression should be >> possible. If you can further compress the finished PDF by more than 25% >> or so, then the PDF has a lot of wasted space. Also, you can try >> compressing the PostScript file and compare it to the size of the PDF >> file. >> >> PostScript, Text, and Word files, for instance, usually can be compressed >> a lot. While GIFs and JPEGs cannot, because they are already close to >> being optimally encoded. Stuffing a ZIP file will often result in a >> larger file than you started with. >> >> This is by no means a scientific test, but I think it still provides some >> useful information. Last time I tested some files in this way, I >> concluded that PDF files were in fact an excellent way to transmit files >> without loss of quality. And, that compressing a PDF file before >> transmission was not generally needed. >> >> [fletcher] >> >> Cumuli Ezine Finder - http://www.cumuli.com/ezine/ >> and Coupon Central - http://www.couponcentral.com/ >> >> ----------------------------------------------------------------------- >> To Unsubscribe: <mailto:acrobat-off@blueworld.com> >> Archives : <http://listsearch.blueworld.com/acrobattalksearch.lasso> > > > ----------------------------------------------------------------------- > To Unsubscribe: <mailto:acrobat-off@blueworld.com> > Archives : <http://listsearch.blueworld.com/acrobattalksearch.lasso>
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Rich Sprague Re: Decreased file sizes using Distiller v4 (Mac)
Aug 01, 1999; 11:56
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Re: Decreased file sizes using Distiller v4 (Mac)
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