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Dear Rich,
Hi and thanks so much for getting back to me. I am new to Acrobat and have an urgent job that needs to be online tomorrow.
I admit that I originally scanned the pages in at 300dpi, but that was only because they looked fuzzy when I scanned them in at a 150 dpi. I thought I could compress them after. I brought them straight into Acorbat and immediately made one big .pdf file of about 28 MB. I then saved this as a .ps file and then distilled it, and got the file size down to about 5MB.
It would take me quite along time to scan the pages all in again, so am wondering if this will work...?
I have now split the big file up into lots of smaller separate .pdf files, and linked them together using the thumbnail options. Now I have a CONTENTS page which still says 5 MB , but the thumbnails in it link to each page which are smaller .pdf files, ranging from about 130 kb to 280 kb in file size. (There is also one page which is 1MB in file size. )
Are these unreasonable file sizes to put online, and do you think I am doing the right thing? I assumed that if I linked alll these smaller pages using thumbnails to the first main contents page it would load each one individually, which would be quicker than waiting for the whole 5MB at once. However now I have linked them to the Contents page, it has increased its file size back again to 5MB, so perhaps what I have done is put all the other pages into it, instead of just linking them.
I dont want to bother you too much, but at the moment you are my only lifeline on this, and if you can help, or make any further suggestions, it would be very Very appreciated.
Thank you again,
Debbie
From: "Rich Sprague" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: RE: [PDF-Basics] Please help!- Compressing Acrobat Files Date: Sat, 10 Jan 2004 13:46:00 -0800
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How are you making this PDF file?
The other day I helped someone with a bloated PDF file from scanned pages. It was 300+ pages and 25mb. It was also scanned in at 600 dpi resolution. Using PDF optimizer (built in with Acrobat 6), I was able to reduce the dpi to 150, and the file size to 6mb. But remember, it was 300 pages. Your images should look (and print) great at 150 dpi. I have a sample PDF page with text, graphics and images, in color, at at 150 dpi it is 124k.
Try scanning your pages at either 150 or 300 dpi, save them as tiffs, and make your PDF from there.
Hope this helps.
Rich
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Wonder can anyone please help?
I scanned in a 16 page report (including text, photos and graphical
drawings) and created a .pdf document from this to put online as part of a
website. The final 16 page .pdf document was 28 MB file size! But at least
it looked good at this size.
I have tried compressing this document in several ways, but it looks
terrible even at 5.06 MB. I have used the Acrobat Distiller 5, and have also
remembered to use "fast web compression", but if I make it any smaller in
file size it looks bad and hard to read. I dont think that breaking this
document up into smaller ones would look very good, but may need to.....Is
there some way to compress this file and still keep decent quality? I have
tried the help section, but it is confusing. Many thanks to any one can
help!
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