She told me it said it couldn't be "decoded". I don't have the actual
Windows error report.
I remember that when I used the Automator, the resulting file was very
small, something like around 45 KB. When I found that I could do the
compression with the OS, I didn't attempt to use the Automater again,
and removed its files. The compression with using the OS was much
greater, about 1.1MB.
She does have Acrobat Reader 5 for her Windows 2000. In my experience,
the Mac OS always adds the pdf extension when it creates a PDF file.
"... I'm just curious that the workflow would be on Apple's pages if
it is faulty."
Perhaps it's not faulty. Perhaps Windows is faulty. Perhaps... Perhaps
a glitch is always possible anywhere at any time!
I don't have anything more to report.
Alvin
On Apr 28, 2008, at 8:52 PM, Jim wrote:
I wrote to the Automator author to ask if he had seen this error
before and here is his reply:
"Never. Could it be that the .pdf extension was missing? Or, perhaps
Acrobat reader was not installed on the Windows computer? What
error, exactly, was reported?" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I don't want to beat a dead horse if this is past history for you,
Alvin, I'm just curious that the workflow would be on Apple's pages
if it is faulty.
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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