Also have a look at PDF Shrink on Versiontracker for the demo and the vendor's web site.
I use a couple of tools for PDFs, the wonderful and free Combine PDFs (specially useful if you print from a Word document with multiple sections) and PDF Shrink to reduce the size if you have graphics, lots of fonts or anything else that makes the PDF large. You can also look at PDFLab - it does much the same as Combine PDFs but is more powerful (and correspondingly harder to use). For the casual user these tools are much cheaper than buying Acrobat. The only things missing are a tool to apply security and one to edit/markup. Cheers Greg > From: Shay Telfer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: Thu, 14 Jul 2005 14:25:59 +0800 > To: WAMUG Mailing List <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: Size of PDFs created under OSX > >> Hi, >> >> We were asked to turn a PC-using friend's MSoft Word docs into PDFs >> to make them smaller (she needs to email them to multiple >> recipients). However, the PDF created by printing under OSX (10.2.8) >> is much larger (5.2Mb) than the original Word document (2.6Mb). >> >> We tried the same file on our other Mac (OS10.3.3) and produced a >> slightly smaller file (5.1Mb). >> >> Does anyone know if this is standard for PDFs created in this way, >> and if Acrobat produces smaller PDFs than those created under OSX? > > Yes, have a look at PDF compress: > > <http://www.metaobject.com/Products.html> > > Have fun, > Shay > -- > =========================== Shay Telfer ================================ > Perth, Western Australia Technomancer Join Team Sungroper in the > Opinions for hire [POQ] 2005 World Solar Challenge > http://public.xdi.org/=Shay fnord <http://sungroper.asn.au/> > > -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- > Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> > Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> > Unsubscribe - <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > WAMUG is powered by Stalker CommuniGatePro >
