FM12: PDF file size exploding

Robert Lauriston robert at lauriston.com
Mon Feb 23 11:24:44 PST 2015


Are of the image compression options different?

On Mon, Feb 23, 2015 at 10:57 AM, Lin Sims <ljsims.ml at gmail.com> wrote:
> Nope. It's off by default. I had switched it on for one of the PDF
> generations, because I was hoping to use the import comments from PDF to
> Frame, but it turns out that really isn't as useful as I'd hoped, so the
> next time I created the PDF, I made sure it was off.
>
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> On Mon, Feb 23, 2015 at 1:37 PM, Robert Lauriston <robert at lauriston.com>
> wrote:
>>
>> If that happened to me, I'd still want to know where the bloat was
>> coming from. PDFs larger than 10MB still present problems for me on
>> occasion, and files becoming 4X larger without any additional data
>> strongly suggests that a property setting was inappropriately changed
>> in the upgrade or some new property setting is at an inappropriate
>> default.
>>
>> The Generate Tagged PDF option didn't get switched on, did it?
>>
>> On Mon, Feb 23, 2015 at 10:18 AM, Lin Sims <ljsims.ml at gmail.com> wrote:
>> > Well, on the minus side, regenerating those files and trying all the
>> > tips
>> > y'all have so kindly provided has not reduced the file size appreciably.
>> >
>> > On the plus side, I've discovered that it is, in fact, possible to put
>> > the
>> > shared-review-enabled PDF onto the cloud storage site, where we have
>> > unlimited storage. The reviewers still have to download it locally, but
>> > they
>> > always had to do that. I no longer need to send it as an attachment to
>> > an
>> > email, so the situation has become the one Fred thought it was to begin
>> > with. :-)
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> Lin Sims



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