Graphics average weight

[mathieu jacquet]

Thank you Art,

No, I do not. Is there a special tool for optimizing PDFs?

Best regards,
Mathieu

> From: art.campbell at gmail.com
> Date: Thu, 21 Oct 2010 15:58:37 -0400
> Subject: Re: Graphics average weight
> To: bobitch at hotmail.com
> CC: generic668 at yahoo.ca; framers at lists.frameusers.com; richard.combs at polycom.com
> 
> Are you optimizing / reducing the size of the PDF with Acrobat after
> you generate it?
> 
> 
> Art Campbell
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> On Thu, Oct 21, 2010 at 3:30 PM, mathieu jacquet <bobitch at hotmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > Thank you Nadine and Richard,
> >
> > To answer Richard's questions:
> >
> >> > I've never seen file sizes discussed in terms of weight and
> >> > heaviness. Is that a French idiom?
> >
> > Yes, that was a linguistic "calque" from the French "poids d'un fichier" :o).
> >
> >> >
> >> > To get meaningful recommendations for reducing graphics
> >> > file sizes, you should probably provide more context. These
> >> > docs that are 15-20 Mo (MB) -- are they PDFs? Or your FM
> >> > source files? Or something else?
> >> >
> >
> > I am talking about PDFs. I have seen 500-pages PDFs with hundreds of images not bigger that 5 Mb, and mine contain about 250 graphics for a good 20 Mb in average, so it makes me think there might be something rotten in my graphics kingdom.
> >
> >> > What graphics programs do you use to create and manipulate
> >> > these graphics? What version of FM are you using? Are you
> >> > importing by reference or copying into the document?
> >
> > I am using FM9 on Vista 64. I only import them by reference.
> > Graphics are mostly screenshots taken with Snag-It and saved as png (True Colour 24 bits). I have a couple of .eps with very specific Pantone colours but not much (maybe one or two of about 400 Kb each).
> >
> >> >
> >> > If the "heavy" docs are PDFs, what version of Acrobat and
> >> > what job options are you using?
> >
> > I am using Acrobat 9.O with "Standard quality" (French calque again :) ) job option.
> >
> >> >
> >> > There are graphics gurus on the list (I'm not one of them)
> >> > who can probably offer useful advice once they understand
> >> > the question and have a little more detail. :-)
> >
> > Here they are :).
> >
> > Thank you all for your help,
> >
> > Mathieu.
> >
> >> Date: Thu, 21 Oct 2010 10:01:54 -0700
> >> From: generic668 at yahoo.ca
> >> Subject: RE: Graphics average weight
> >> To: bobitch at hotmail.com; framers at lists.frameusers.com; richard.combs at Polycom.com
> >>
> >> If I recall correctly, images that are copied into FM, rather than referenced, make for larger PDFs.
> >>
> >> Nadine
> >>
> >> --- On Thu, 10/21/10, Combs, Richard <richard.combs at Polycom.com> wrote:
> >>
> >> > From: Combs, Richard <richard.combs at Polycom.com>
> >> > Subject: RE: Graphics average weight
> >> > To: "mathieu jacquet" <bobitch at hotmail.com>, "framers at lists.frameusers.com" <framers at lists.frameusers.com>
> >> > Date: Thursday, October 21, 2010, 11:45 AM
> >> > mathieu jacquet wrote:
> >> >
> >> > > what is the average weight in Ko of your screenshots
> >> > and illustrations? My
> >> > > docs are pretty heavy (up to 15-20 Mo), with graphics
> >> > (mostly png) being
> >> > > around 15 Ko-70 Ko in average. That looks too much.
> >> > What would the best
> >> > > solution be to reduce their weight (in batch if
> >> > possible)?
> >> >
> >> > I had a vague recollection that "octet" is synonymous with
> >> > "byte," and a quick trip to Wikipedia confirmed that your
> >> > references to "Ko" and "Mo" are probably file sizes. But
> >> > I've never seen file sizes discussed in terms of weight and
> >> > heaviness. Is that a French idiom?
> >> >
> >> > To get meaningful recommendations for reducing graphics
> >> > file sizes, you should probably provide more context. These
> >> > docs that are 15-20 Mo (MB) -- are they PDFs? Or your FM
> >> > source files? Or something else?
> >> >
> >> > What graphics programs do you use to create and manipulate
> >> > these graphics? What version of FM are you using? Are you
> >> > importing by reference or copying into the document?
> >> >
> >> > If the "heavy" docs are PDFs, what version of Acrobat and
> >> > what job options are you using?
> >> >
> >> > There are graphics gurus on the list (I'm not one of them)
> >> > who can probably offer useful advice once they understand
> >> > the question and have a little more detail. :-)
> >> >
> >> >
> >> > Richard G. Combs
> >> > Senior Technical Writer
> >> > Polycom, Inc.
> >> > richardDOTcombs AT polycomDOTcom
> >> > 303-223-5111
> >> > ------
> >> > rgcombs AT gmailDOTcom
> >> > 303-903-6372
> >> > ------
> >> >
> >> >
> >> >
> >> >
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