I found that when I saved a Legacy chart by 'printing' to PDF995 (instead of to a real printer), I got a much smaller PDF file than I got from the regular Legacy Charting process. There are some functional differences, but it is worth experimenting. You can google this product, which has been discussed previously on this list.
Ward ----- Original Message ----- From: Alan Jones To: [email protected] Sent: Sunday, September 26, 2010 9:55 PM Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Legacy charting 7 Syble, Not sure what you can do inside of legacy, but with a free 3rd party program called PDFCreator you can shrink the PDF. I personally have used that in some other applications successfully. Maybe this hint will help others. Below are some instructions i wrote for someone else Compressing/Shrinking a PDF Document with PDFCreator Original Created by Alan Jones 2009-12-08 Sometimes PDF Document can be very large and hard to email or share. This is especially true with PDFs that were created from a scanning or have many pictures embedded in them. Compressing a PDF is useful however the graphic quality in the PDF may not be needed for some levels of printing or sharing. So it is advisable to always keep a copy of the original file. To shrink a PDF using the free PDFCreator tool do the following: 1.. Install the latest PDFCreator from pddfforge http://www.pdfforge.org/ 2.. Open the PDF document. 3.. Print the PDF document to the PDFCreator printer that you have installed. 4.. After the document printing processing is complete a new window will pop up that say PDFCreator and the version number. It will have information on the Document Title, Creation Date, etc. At the bottom is a button labeled "Options". Select the "Options" button. 5.. In the Options window on the left side open the "Formats" group. Then select "PDF" in the "Formats" group. 6.. The first tab "General" has some over all PDF format options. Note however shrinking the resolution on this page has generally not shrunk the size of the PDF. 7.. The next tab "Compression" has several items to configure. 1.. Make sure "Compress Text Objects" is selected. 2.. Under both sections Color Images and Greyscale Images make sure Compress is selected and the drop down compression type from "Automatic" to "JPG-Maximum". 3.. After the previous change "Resample" will no longer be grayed out. Select the check box for "Resample". 4.. Make sure the box below "Resample" says "Downsample" then change the "Resolution" from 300 to to 150. Note one can change the resolution to a lower "Resolution" like 96 but the quality will continue to degrade. A resolution of 150 is often a good middle ground. 5.. For the next section "Monochrome Images" make sure "Compress" is checked and that CCITT Fax Compression is selected and Resample and Downsample as above are selected. Extensive testing of this resolution has not occurred but changing the Resolution from 1200 to 600 would be advisable for shrinking file size. 8.. Select any other configuration options that are desired. 9.. Select Save for the "Options" Window and then save for the original PDFCreator window. Select your file name and location and safe the file. For the compressed version of the file one might use the same file name as the original, but add the " - Compressed" to the end of the file name so you know it is the compressed version. 10.. View the PDF and check the file size to make sure the are acceptable. After you have compressed the file(s) as desired it is best to go back and reset the setting to the default unless you want them to be kept for future documents. Go back to the above mentioned "Options" section and click on the button at the bottom of the window that says "Reset all settings". On 9/26/2010 7:40 PM, Syble Glasscock wrote: I created a chart with 8 generations, it has 13 small size photos, but I ended up with a 15MB pdf file, what can I do to make it a smaller size to put on my website. Thanks, Syble Glasscock Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages after Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Archived messages from old mail server - before Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp
