The author described the same procedure for compressing a PDF you had
noting that his Automator workflow was supposed to reduce the number
of steps. I had assumed that was all he was doing, using Automator to
execute the same commands. Guess not! Odd that it would work on one
platform and not the other.
Jim
On Apr 28, 2008, at 7:38 PM, Alvin Auerbach wrote:
Thanks Jim. I tried it and it seemed to work, but when she received
it on her Windows machine, she couldn't open it. When I used the
routine built into OS 10, she had no trouble with it.
Alvin
On Apr 27, 2008, at 11:52 AM, Jim wrote:
On Apple's Automator Actions download page is the following:
http://www.apple.com/downloads/macosx/automator/compresspdfworkflow.html
"About Compress PDF Workflow
Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard) does not exhibit the “Compress PDF”
workflow on the Print dialog that used to appear in OS X 10.4
(Tiger). This package will restore “Compress PDF” to the Print
dialog."
Jim
On Apr 26, 2008, at 12:04 PM, Alvin Auerbach wrote:
Thanks Betty.
It turns out that Apple had the the solution to the problem built
in to OS 10! I just didn't realize it, but someone else told me
about it. Thanks, Steve Jobs and Apple!!
1. Make the PDF as usual, using the Print command and PDF > Save
as PDF...
2. Open the PDF in Preview, the go File > Save As...
3. Select Format: PDF, and Quartz Filter: Reduce File Size; then
Save
It worked very well.
Alvin
On Apr 26, 2008, at 9:51 AM, b_s-wilk wrote:
When you make changes in a document to make it smaller, be sure
to "Save As..." to replace the original. The original may contain
extraneous data that you deleted, but are still in the file for
to allow an "Undo". There's only one level of "Undo" in
AppleWorks and Graphic Converter, but it may be enough to bloat
the file.
My tools are a G5 iMac running Mac OS 10.5.2, AppleWorks, and
GraphicConverter. Somehow, even though I've tried to bring down
the
file size of the photos to about 400KB each in GC, pasting them
into
AW and using the iMac Print function to create the PDF, the file
size
seem to ballon up.
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