Melissa -

For several months I have been greatly reducing the size of my linked graphics
using Adobe's new Image Ready program. I don't know if you've tried it, but
here it is in a nutshell - It converts large graphics to jpegs, gifs or pngs
with an unbelievably small quality/size tradeoff. I routinely convert 20-mb
tiffs to 500k jpegs with no noticeable loss of quality. These go into
Pagemaker files that are converted to PDF, then printed on a Textronix color
proofer. For files that I am using on-screen only or printing from a 600-dpi
BW laser, I can get the size down even further.
Even files that are for offset printing can be reduced quite a bit. A two-
page, four-color newsletter with color photos used to take up 25 mb on a zip
disk. I now attach the 400-700k PDF to an e-mail.
One catch in Image Ready (I consider it a minor shortcoming) is that tiffs
have to be converted to RGB before the program will open them.

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