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You may be expecting more compression and more quality than a PDF can offer at a small file size. Photoshop-created files (i.e., bitamps images), cause PDF bloat faster than anything. I have a 3.5 x 4.63 ad which I created in PS and added text to it in InDesign. I made a PDF with the press quality optimized settings. It is nearly 800 KB. I tried printing it to the standard job options (150 dpi meant for office printing). The file came down to 70 KB. An 8.5 x 11 page is going to be roughly six times the size, or 420 KB. >From many points of view, it's best to do bitmap imaging/editing in Photoshop, and add text, solids, etc. in a page layout program. If you wish for me to look at your 700 KB file for you, please feel free to send it to me privately and I will offer any additional suggestions. Rich -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of andym Sent: Thursday, March 11, 2004 12:46 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [PDF-Basics] Photoshop to PDF PDF-Basics is a service provided by PDFzone.com | http://www.pdfzone.com/ __________________________________________________________________ Rich, I have tried this, as well as producing a PDF file directly from within Photoshop, but still manage to get a document over the 500kb size. My main aim is to be able to email, and to produce a printable document without pixelation. I created the document from scratch on Photoshop ... creating a number of layers, then flattening all the layers once finished. The finished Photoshop document at 200dpi is approx 5.2mb. If I save the Photoshop file (PSD) as a JPG I can get about 700kb without any further loss of quality. Then, either Photoshop or my PDF printer brings this size down to about 500kb in the PDF conversion. I will try the TIFF suggestion that others have mentioned, and will also try importing into Quark. There are so many custom made documents floating around on a quality 1 page PDF file at 150kb max - how do they do it??? Regards, and thanks to you all... andym ----- Original Message ----- From: "Rich Sprague" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, March 12, 2004 3:10 AM Subject: RE: [PDF-Basics] Photoshop to PDF > > PDF-Basics is a service provided by PDFzone.com | http://www.pdfzone.com/ > __________________________________________________________________ > > Why not just print from Photoshop to the Adobe PDF printer? This would save > an extra step? > > Rich > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of selvanponnusamy > Sent: Thursday, March 11, 2004 9:06 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [PDF-Basics] Photoshop to PDF > > > PDF-Basics is a service provided by PDFzone.com | http://www.pdfzone.com/ > __________________________________________________________________ > > andym > > I'm not sure what you're working with, but if your ultimate aim is to > produce an "emailable" PDF here's what I would do. > > I would import the Photoshop Tif or Eps into either Freehand or Quark or > InDesign and create a PDF from there. That should create a much smaller PDF > than you would have directly from Photoshop. > > Hope this helps. > > Regards > > Selvan Ponnusamy > > Advertising Production Nightshift Supervisor Independent Newspapers KZN > (South Africa) > > > +27-31 2621670 Daytime (Home) > +27-31 3082544 after 3.30pm (Work) > > CELL: 082 8722 301 > > > > > **************************************************************************** > * > "Private, Confidential & Privileged" > > This e-mail, and any files and attachments transmitted with it, is > confidential and/or privileged. It is intended solely for the use of the > intended recipient. Any views and opinions expressed are those of the > individual author/sender and are not necessarily shared or endorsed by > Independent News & Media SA (Pty) Ltd, Independent Newspapers > (Pty) Ltd or any associated or related company. 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