Reduce Number of Color Definitions?

[Fred Ridder]

Mike Feimster wrote:
 
> I did some testing once and created two documents, where the only
> difference was one doc had an 8-bit png inported by reference and the
> other had a 16-bit png imported by reference. When I generated PDFs, the
> PDF with the 8-bit png was actually bigger.
 
I seem to recall that one or two versions of Acrobat had a specific 
problem with 8-bit PNGs that resulted in unnecessarily large PDF file
sizes, so that might have been a contributing factor in your test
since you don't mention the version you were using at the time.
 
-FR