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Bill Nicol
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.pdf - 4/13/2002 11:33:47
Hello everybodddyyyyyyy..
Does anyone know a way to compress or make smaller adobe .pdf files? I've put some out to the website, but they're enormous.
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RE: .pdf - 4/13/2002 15:09:32
Hello Bill! There are three different ways to save a .pdf.
- Screen
- Web
- Print
When saving for Screen or Web, make sure you enter 72 for the dpi. When saving for print, you would enter 300 for the dpi.
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RE: .pdf - 4/15/2002 11:38:55
Just a note on the above, when you convert to a .pdf at 72 dpi it is not only smaller, but will look better on the screen.
It will still print reasonably well, photo's or graphics may be a tad bit distorted.
At 300 dpi the printed copies look a lot better, but on screen they look fuzzy and take up a lot more storage space.
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Bill Nicol
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RE: .pdf - 4/15/2002 18:22:22
Hi all,
Thanks. I think I might have asked this question once before, but to be sure, can't remember the answer. I appreciate the responses.
Thanks again....
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RE: .pdf - 4/17/2002 17:02:50
Would you know how to do this from within Acrobat 5? I've looked at the save settings in this six ways from Sunday and can't figure it out! THANKS!
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RE: .pdf - 4/21/2002 7:22:06
Hi Bill,
Another alternative is to convert the PDF into HTML, especially if you only want a portion of the file. We use this for extracting need-to-know information from vendor manuals (with their permission of course). This is a really powerful tool but you have to have the full Acrobat. Here is the link to the plug-in:
http://www.adobe.com/products/plugins/acrobat/magellan.html
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RE: .pdf - 4/22/2002 2:04:37
Are you trying to save a scanned image you scanned yourself or are you trying to save an existing pdf file from an external source?
There's very little you can do with an external file, but plenty you can do with a self-generated scan directly into Acrobat 5 (full version) If you only have the reader and still want to convert a file, go here for details: https://createpdf.adobe.com/index.pl/3883187559.60608?BP=IE&Language=ENU
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RE: .pdf - 4/23/2002 10:08:07
Hi Tarheel, this would be an image I scanned myself. I find we are using .pdf at the office more and more and am looking for a way to make the images more compact.
OBTW, we have full Adobe at the office.
Edited by - bill nicol on 04/23/2002 10:08:52
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Bill Nicol
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RE: .pdf - 4/23/2002 15:40:09
I just noticed, on a .pdf file, that when I looked at its properties, it says the file is not compressed. Is there a way to compress the file?
I have access to Adobe, but not real savvy with it....
Thanks in advance.
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RE: .pdf - 4/24/2002 8:48:32
Checked into the Adobe forum on this topic and found that filesize is pretty dependent upon dpi when scanning an image. So, Pageoneresults and Bobby, you were spot on with your advice.
Thanks to all.....
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RE: .pdf - 4/24/2002 12:27:50
this might sound silly for me to say, but why couldn't you call the picture into a table using javascript, there for the picture can be and resolution.
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RE: .pdf - 4/25/2002 8:59:11
Well, my experience with .pdf pix is that you don't insert it like a jpg or gif, you hyperlink to it. By so doing, you activate Adobe Acrobat Reader at the browser end and that is what displays the pic. I'm not aware of any other way to do it....
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RE: .pdf - 4/27/2002 18:51:49
Bill,
When creating a PDF file with Adobe Acrobat, your file size will be smaller when using the Distiller function, rather than the PDF Writer function. My Club news letters using the writer averaged 800 KB, with the Distiller the size dropped to 350 KB. The source in both cases were MS Publisher files.
See http://www.myscacc.org/newsletters.htm
Enjoy! It's your endeavor!
Edited by - Charles W Davis on 04/27/2002 18:52:58
Edited by - Charles W Davis on 05/16/2002 14:50:12
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RE: .pdf - 4/29/2002 9:07:19
Hi CWD,
Most excellent... I almost totally forgot the distiller... thanks.....
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RE: .pdf - 5/15/2002 15:04:00
We use Acrobat once a year to convert 100's of MS Word files to .pdfs.
This year, we upgraded to Acrobat 5 and wondered why our .pdf files were so large. We were getting 140-180kb file sizes, when last year, using version 4, the files sizes were 20-40kb. Strange.
I checked the settings within Acrobat 5, followed the directions from Adobe, and still the outputted .pdf's were too large. (Changed to screen, 72dpi, and used Distiller).
To save time, I just uninstalled Acrobat 5 and installed Acrobat 4, and everything worked fine. Outputted .pdf's were back to their small size, and I like the way v4 allows you to open the .doc files within Acrobat. V5, you must open in Word and "Save as PDF".
This is my experience w/ Acrobat 5. Unless I'm missing something, I consider it a downgrade from v4. (For our purpose, that is, converting .doc files to .pdf)
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