Reply To: PDFs exported from CS6 are too large

David,

Time was an issue, so I used the multi-page PDF and extract technique using Bridge to rename the files. I've done this so many times that the PEU script would have been only marginally faster. The entire book totalled 382 PDFs @ 242.4 MB.

Before I did so, I did one last test with the first 64 pp. As a multi-page PDF, 46.2 MB; as 64 individual PDFs using the PEU script and same job options, 1.25 GB.

It seems as something is being “shared” (for the lack of a better term) in the multi-page PDF. The job is essentially complete, but I'd really like to know what's happening with this file.

BTW, I had no problem exporting the IDML; it took less than 30 seconds. The problem was trying to open the resulting 14.3 MB file in either INDD CS5 or CS6.

Bob