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• • November 4, 2011 at 10:47 am #61000
    Lala Lala

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    Is there a way to export fully optimized PDFs? IE ones that are identical to the results I get when I open my pdf in acrobat and do advanced –> PDF optimizer? I do this with every pdf I make and I'd love to have it done automatically somehow.

  • November 7, 2011 at 8:59 am #61012
    Lala Lala

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    I can't be the only person with this workflow. I'd think pretty much everyone eventually PDFs their indesign files, and most people would want those PDFs optimized. I seem to remember a place where one can make suggestions to adobe, does anyone have a link?

  • November 7, 2011 at 11:26 am #61016
    David Blatner

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    Well, the answer is maybe… it depends on what settings you choose in Acrobat's optimize pdf dialog box. InDesign cannot strip xmp metadata, for example, or document overhead, etc. But it can adjust image resolution, etc.

  • November 7, 2011 at 12:31 pm #61017
    Lala Lala

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    Howdy David, thanks for the reply… well, I've toyed with the settings in that box. I thought originally it was keeping images at full resolution even after I shrunk them. A typical 1 page document for me might come out to be 5 megs as a pdf using default “High Quality Print” settings.

    I modified those settings to reduce all images over 200 ppi to 200 ppi, and the result is a smaller PDF, but only a bit… say 4.8 megs. So I guess it's not the images. A fully optimized PDF of the same document is 400kb, and the images are still 200+ resolution.

    So… anything I can do within that dialogue to come close to that 400kb result? Maybe a javascript plugin to export in a different way?

  • November 7, 2011 at 2:36 pm #61018
    David Blatner

    Keymaster

    I'd check out these two blog posts and the 'drop 20 pounds' article they refer to:

    https://creativepro.com/why…..o-huge.php

    and

    https://creativepro.com/doc…..uuuuge.php

  • November 7, 2011 at 3:17 pm #61019
    Lala Lala

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    Cheers, the images were the culprit. I have a placed PDF where part of its background image is masked. The PDF is just 150kb without the image. The image itself is under a meg also. The instant I put the masked image into the PDF in illustrator? Bam, 7.7 megs. It makes no sense.

    So I just run the optimizer on these PDFs that eventually get placed, and my exported pdfs are under a meg now. Good enough.

    Thanks again!

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