PDF printing file sizes

[rjwilden]

Why are the PDf files in V11 so big.
A 15 page A1 project will publish out at 25MB
The same job if I print out single sheets using the Amyuni Printer 12MB
Looking back at old files most jobs came in at 8-10 MB
The PDF printing was supposed to be improved. Looks like were going backwards.
There is no way I can email a 25Mb file. Which is a big reason I have used this in the past,

Richard.

[andyro]

11 is a step backwards, I would concur, in this regard. Bloated PDFs have caused me no end of grief with remote print houses, that now demand sheet-by-sheet files from us, or reduced/optimized (in Acrobat pro/preview) work.

We isolated some culprit fills - like the hexagonal insulation hatch, and some others that were making pageloads painfully slow.

There needs to be better resolution options on OS X, flattenning, and built-in filesize optimization. Just compare a set of DWF's - amazing at 1/4 to 1/10th the size, same information.

[Djordje]

rjwilden wrote:
There is no way I can email a 25Mb file.

There in fact is, kinda ...

http://www.sendthisfile.com/

Until the PDF bloating is fixed. I usually run them through Acrobat's Reduce the file size function, and often end up with 10% of the original. Scary.

[andyro]

Djordje wrote:
...and often end up with 10% of the original. Scary.

Something so 'easy' should be internal to AC's PDF generation. Maybe they can give someone at Adobe a phone call?

[Thomas Holm]

I don't get this PDF bloating problem. Is it platform depandant? I mean I thought AC11 still uses MacOSX's system PDF creating, but I don't know what's going on on the PC side since Aymuni was fired?

[andyro]

We have single sheets averaging 600KB to 2MB - making sets enormous. This is both with 'print/save as PDF' under OS X and Publish workflows.

PC's still give more resolution options. OS X only gives Arc resolution.
I have heard complaints from at least 16 firms in the UK and Canada.

[Djordje]

It heavily, and I mean HEAVILY depends on the fills used. Percentage fills are next to the symbol fills. I had cases when I could not print, as I really went overboard with fills ...

Looked good, though ... sigh!

[Anonymous]

There seems to be no solution to this BIG problem.

[Karl Ottenstein]

I don't know if this helps, and someone else probably said this already... but I noticed recently on Windows, that SAVEing as PDF vs printing to either Acrobat or Amyuni resulted in much faster PDF generation and smaller files.

Karl