Nigel Ridley schrieb: > Craig Bradney wrote: >> On Thursday 11 September 2008 20:13:42 Xavier Colmant wrote: >>> 2008/9/11 Nigel Ridley <nigel at rmk.co.il>: >>>> I have to ask this; >>>> >>>> How can I produce a reasonable looking 2 page (A4) PDF file that is >>>> less >>>> than 1 Mb? >>>> >>>> I have done everything in the export to PDF to get the file size down >>>> (resample to 72 DPI etc). >>> Personally, I resize the pictures I want to use to a size close to the >>> one used in the final document. >>> Have also a look at multivalent tools. The compress tool might be >>> helpful to you (I never tried it, I just used the imposition tool) : >> >> >> How do you know its the images? >> >> Try setting the fonts to outline on export as a test. > > Wow! That reduced the file size to a respectable 553.7 KB from 1.3 MB :-) > What's the difference between 'Embed' and 'Outline'? > > Nigel > "Embed" includes the complete Fonts into the PDF while "Outline" converts the text to curves. As far as I know, it depends, sometimes embedding the fonts can result in smaller files than converting the text to outline.
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