Hi Ronni,

I have been using Good, Better and Best with very sim. results on size. I found the solution. I took the PDF exported at "Best" quality from Pages and re-opened in Acrobat 8 Pro. I then saved that PDF using the "optimize" function. Size now 2.7MB - OK for my purpose. I looked at the embedded fonts and found string of fonts I had never heard of and unembedded them. Voila!


Thanks

Bill



On 10/08/2009, at 10:08 AM, Ronda Brown wrote:



On 10/08/2009, at 9:25 AM, Bill Parker wrote:


I wonder if anyone has experience with PAGES in iWork?

I am at the hair pulling stage............

Working from an empty template except for a masthead and other common details (start size about 1MB) I have a 30 page document that comes out at 7MB. I have checked every picture and graphic and I cannot account for that size. The text should not account for too much size?

I make a PDF by the export function in either Best, Better or Good modes and end up with 5.6MB. I open in Acrobat 8 Pro, re-save and can shave off a bit, but not enough. Note that Acrobat will NOT open from Pages - you get a Macintosh error msg

Can any one help? I have used the template before and achieve a 2 - 3MB PDF end result.

OS 10.5.7  MacBook pro

Bill

Hi Bill,

When you export to PDF
Best -  the resolution of images isn’t scaled down.
Better - images are downsampled to 150 dpi.
Good - images are downsampled to 72 dpi.

When you export to PDF with "Good", is the file size still too large?

Ronni

17" MacBook Pro Intel Core 2 Duo
2.4 GHz / 4GB / 800MHz / 500GB
OS X 10.5.8



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