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A question about having a lot of vector files within an InDesign document.

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    • August 22, 2011 at 1:08 pm #60356
      Kensation
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      I am creating a comparison chart in indesign, and I am running into some issues. Once I have used the “Adobe PDF Presets” exporting option to save my chart as a PDF, the PDF is rather large. I think it is becuase I have used vector images (green check marks) many times within my comparison chart. I have a friend who reccomended pasting the vector into Photoshop as a smart object, and then saving as a TIFF file with no layers and a transparent background. I tried this, but the overal quality of the image in the PDF I saved after doing this process was less than satisfactory. Are there any other options that I can try? Or am I perhaps missing a step somewhere along the way?

      Thanks!

      P.S. I am using CS3 Suite, and I am on Windows 7.

    • August 23, 2011 at 5:13 am #60357
      Tim Hughes
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      That stuff about making vectors into tiffs is a pointless exercise, if anything it will make your document bigger.

      Vectors shouldn't add much size to your file at all, are they .ai files? To just assume that is making the file big make be the wrong assumption.

      If the “green check marks” are simple shapes why not copy and paste the object/vector from Illustrator into Indesign.

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