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 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.
Your welcome, glad I could help,sometimes it's this simple, sometimes not.
The RGB/CMYK difference is not by itself going to account for a more than 3x increase in size. There has got to be another, more significant difference.
However, the "web" setting is the lowest resolution preset and though you could conceptually get the file size down further by a higher JPEG compression or lower settings for bitmap downsampling, I would expect an unacceptable drop in quality before you get near the previous size.
The RGB/CMYK setting is under colour management on the advanced tab.
You may find that cropping images inside PowerClips will save you file size too. Additionally, look at the dpi of all your images which go into your final publication, these don't need to be greater than 300 dpi for print. But save a backup copy if you need to revert to the larger images.
Any kind of vectors which are using envelopes, convert them to curves. Some kinds of gradients are not understood by Acrobat such at square and conical gradients, these you will need to rasterize.
Be sure always to move all text to the top as any transparency over them will render as a bitmap. Not too pretty either.