Reducing pic size?

[macmik1950]

I love how Clickforms has an "optimize" button to reduce the file size for emailing. I'm now trying to email a commercial report. It's 89 mb in pdf. The most gmail will send is 25 mb. I suspect that the pictures are much of that file size. Other than sending "chunks," what are my options?
~Mike

 

[Lloyd Bonafide]

I set my camera settings on low quality to reduce the size, and the picture quality in the report doesn't seem to change for the worse.

But after you put all of your pictures in the report, right click on any picture, click "image editor", then click "optimize all", and you should reduce all your picture sizes down to 30-60K. My finished PDF usually has a file size under 1 MB, including sketch, plat map, etc.

 

[Pittsburgh Pete]

Go to "Advanced" on your Acrobat tool bar and click on Pdf optimizer; change to the following settings:

color images: 120 pixels; 180 pixels compression: JPED Quality: minimum
grayscale images: 125 pixels, 187 pixels Compression: JPEG Quality: minimum
monochrome images: 300 pixels, 450

These settings will reduce your pdf to 10-20% of its prior size.

 

[macmik1950]

THanks! Great suggestions.

 

[Ken B]

Go to "Advanced" on your Acrobat tool bar and click on Pdf optimizer; change to the following settings:

color images: 120 pixels; 180 pixels compression: JPED Quality: minimum
grayscale images: 125 pixels, 187 pixels Compression: JPEG Quality: minimum
monochrome images: 300 pixels, 450

These settings will reduce your pdf to 10-20% of its prior size.

...learn something new everyday...

 

[EDWARD BERRY]

I Use Axiomx Picsizer To Reduce To About 50,000/picture.
Good Luck, Arkie Ed

 

[Ken B]

Go to "Advanced" on your Acrobat tool bar and click on Pdf optimizer; change to the following settings:

color images: 120 pixels; 180 pixels compression: JPED Quality: minimum
grayscale images: 125 pixels, 187 pixels Compression: JPEG Quality: minimum
monochrome images: 300 pixels, 450

These settings will reduce your pdf to 10-20% of its prior size.

FWIW, I run Acrobat 7.0 and had to make these adjustments via "Advanced", "Acrobat Distiller", "Settings", "Images". I then "Saved as" with a new setting (Appraisal Reports).

Then when I printed a Word file using Acrobat, I selected "Properties", "Adobe PDF Settings", "Default Settings" (Appraisal Reports.)

The new PDF file is less than 50% of the size of the previously created file. I do compress my images prior to inserting them in the Word file, so the file was already a reasonable size. There is no readily observable difference between printed copies of the new and previous PDF file. Screen resolution of images in the new file is less when zoom is over 200%. However, at 100% zoom, it looks just fine. There is no loss in text quality at any zoom setting.

Cool...

 

[PLCG]

Was the report originally done in Word? If show you can use the image toolbar to automatically reduce the file size of all pictures in the document, then reprint in pdf. This can make a HUGE difference in the file size.

 

[Laughing Heir]

You could also 'store' the file somewhere ... your website, someone else's website, a file hoster, torrent file, etc. and provide a link for them to download the report from.

Letting clients 'pick up' their appraisals on an encrypted page on my website has worked out so far for me.


*I just went back and read PPete's post, his makes more sense.


MTL

 

[macmik1950]

Thanks, everyone. I neglected to mention that I'm working in Word on a Mac. I don't see any image toolbar anywhere. The pdf optimizer in Acrobat worked like a charm though.