FM12: PDF file size exploding

[Lin Sims]

And that's what it was. When I replaced the copy I had with a clean
version, generated a PDF, then used the Save As Reduced size, it came out
perfectly.

Seriously, you'd think I'd be happier about solving the problem, but what a
bloody piddly thing it turned out to be to take all that time to fix.

Oh, well. Next problem ...

On Tue, Feb 24, 2015 at 3:44 PM, Robert Lauriston <robert at lauriston.com>
wrote:

> Seems plausible. Inappropriate .joboptions settings can cause massive
> bloat.
>
> On Tue, Feb 24, 2015 at 12:40 PM, Lin Sims <ljsims.ml at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Would a corrupt .joboptions file result in the sort of file size
> increase I
> > saw? I just tried creating a PDF using the Standard option, and
> everything
> > was fine.
> >
> > On Tue, Feb 24, 2015 at 3:01 PM, Lin Sims <ljsims.ml at gmail.com> wrote:
> >>
> >> It does a bit, doesn't it? I've never really dug into Distiller, so I'm
> >> going to spend some time with the PDF Creation Settings manual and see
> if it
> >> sheds any light on the issue.
> >>
> >> This is the first job I've ever had that actually created a customized
> >> joboptions file. Always before, I picked Standard. However, the people
> >> controlling that sort of thing are no longer in control, so I'm free to
> >> explore a bit and see if there's something that works better. Especially
> >> since I suspect it hasn't been looked at in a long time. Would you
> believe,
> >> it was still set to be compatible with Acrobat 4.0?
> >>
> >> On Tue, Feb 24, 2015 at 2:07 PM, Robert Lauriston <robert at lauriston.com
> >
> >> wrote:
> >>>
> >>> That seems bizarre.
> >>>
> >>> On Tue, Feb 24, 2015 at 7:00 AM, Lin Sims <ljsims.ml at gmail.com> wrote:
> >>> > FYI to all, I changed the image compression options from JPEG to off,
> >>> > since
> >>> > we only use either SVGs or PNGs in our documents.
> >>> >
> >>> > The file size dropped dramatically. As in, it's back to what I
> >>> > expected.
>



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Lin Sims
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