Please go easy on me as I have not done anything like this before and I am sure I am making a stupid mistake somewhere.
I need to create a poster that is roughly 1.3m x 2m and the printer requires at least 300 DPI. I have created my poster in GIMP and it consists of 7 layers - x1 large picture that fills the poster and several other small logos/pictures/text. The pixels per inch setting in GIMP was set as 350. The GIMP file is roughly 687Mb and when I export it to a PDF the PDF file is roughly 375Mb. When I try to open the PDF file in Adobe Reader DC I get an error - out of memory and the file does not open. GIMP version - 2.8.18 Adobe Reader DC version - 2015.020.20042 When I export to PDF from GIMP I ensure that the options to ignore hidden layers is ticked and also that the option to convert to vector data type if possible is ticked. After getting stuck here I removed the hidden layers from the GIMP file ie deleted them - they are used for alignment and information when designing. After this the file size was very slightly smaller and Adobe Reader could open the file. However when I tried to print it out in A3 sheets to check to see how it looks Adobe hung up on the flattenning stage. So I then went back to GIMP and flattened it in GIMP so that everything was combined into one layer. Now when I go back to Adobe to print I have no hanging up on flattening however it hangs up on "print 0%". When I check the task manager Adobe is using up plenty of processing so it is doing something... Having no experience in doing something like this I dont know if the file sizes involved are "normal" or not. Can someone tell me if the file sizes I am experiencing are to be expected - I would assume they are. Should I be able to print a PDF this size out? Can anyone see anything that I am doing wrong? Can anyone suggest how to get my PDF file out and that will be able to be printed when sent to the printer? Would a professional printer have some sort of software that will allow them to print a PDF that I can't print? -- big__dav (via www.gimpusers.com/forums) _______________________________________________ gimp-user-list mailing list List address: [email protected] List membership: https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user-list List archives: https://mail.gnome.org/archives/gimp-user-list
