Reply To: PDFs exported from CS6 are too large

October 25, 2012 at 6:10 pm #63456

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An update: A friend of mine who also has been a prepress tech for many years, and a sharp one at that, took a look at this job after I provided the necessary files. She came to the same conclusion that I eventually came to as well. Here is her response:

Hey Bob–

Just so you know, I got a chance to test your file yesterday with the same results as what you had. I tried changing the font on that page with no change in PDF size. Then I copied just the text from that page and pasted into a new 1 page Indy doc and made a pdf. It was 57k. So, I am guessing it is the anchored links causing the shift in file size when exported to a single page pdf. I'm guessing [InDesign] is “seeing” all the anchored links in the text chain as being on the same page and feels it has to include them, even though they are not actually visible. That's why the entire pdf is not abnormally large—that 19mb is already included in that file data and the other images are making up the additional size.

I think you're out of luck!

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