Good Morning - I have recently converted to X4 from ver. 12 and I am having problems when publishing to PDF with file size. Previously when using ver. 12 my PDF would rarely come out over 1MB in size now they are converting to between 3 and 12 MBs. Can anyone help me get these down to previous size. Most files I need to convert are for client approval and contain both bitmap and vector images. I need to keep the vector images vector and cannot present them as jpeg.
Any help would be great - thanks.
mike
mike b said:I need to keep the vector images vector and cannot present them as jpeg.
Hi Ronny - Thanks for the reply. I have been trying several options within the PDF dialog to try and solve this. Currently I have been using the web preset which then sets the JPEG compression ant about 100 & the color and greyscale downsampling to 96 with the mono at 120. The test document that I have been using is a 10 page package of different signs that are then shown rendered to photos for placement approval. so I have about 14 photos in the doc.
This is the sixth revision of this project, so I am able to compare file size to some prevoiusly done in ver.12 that are generally the same except for coming out of the different versions of Corel. The 4th rev. which has the last to come out of 12 was 2.96 mb I cant get this current one coming out of X4 below 11.0MBs.
Do you have any other suggestions that may help? I am desperate as I want to stay current yet I MUST be able to easily transmit files back and forth between client and myself.
Thanks again for the reply
If you have a lot of text in these 10 pages and it is converted to curves (before or while publishing*), complicated vectors may result which need a lot of data to describe them.
Embedding fonts (or subset fonts) in the PDF will save you MBs in that case. See Text and Fonts options under the Objects tab (File > Publish to PDF > Setting > Objects).
If you have Adobe Acrobat, you will find a lot of options to optimize the PDF under the "PDF Optimizer".
* while publishing: File > Publish to PDF > Setting > Objects > Export all text as curves
Mike if you can't solve the problem in any other way, try opening the finished PDF's from version 12 and X4 side by side in Draw, compare text, vector and bitmaps, X4 will tell you the resolution of a bitmap as soon as you select it,
Finn - Great idea! I cant believe I didnt think of that earlier. though the res. was the same @200 dpi the older pics were being saved as 24 bit rgb and the new ones are coming out as 32 bit cmyk. I will have to do a little experimenting as to how to change this but it would surely be adding a little bit of file size.
Thanks for the helpful reply.