Reply To: Scale PDFs

January 17, 2011 at 1:12 pm #58393

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Does that PDF contain any bitmap image at all? If so, Preflight is right to warn you about that.

if I go into illustrator and resize the pdf, file size is huge.

That does indicate there is some bitmap in it doesn't it? Resizing a vector-pure image is virtually “free of any cost”.

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