I am working on a Mac PowerBook, using OS 10.4.11, with VW Designer (Educational Version) 12.5.3
I just drew a courtyard garden design - about 8 layers of various plant types, paths, etc, 2D graphics including color rendering, shadows and the like. I needed to print out a black and white copy at 11" x 17" and so set that up in a viewport and sheet layer and exported it as a PDF. The PDF file was about 3.4 Mb in size.
When I took it to my local Kinkos to print out, however, as the file was printing, it "swelled" to 60Mb while spooling and took 10 minutes to print.
I was able to open the PDF in Adobe Photoshop, flatten it, and save it as a low rez PDF (191k) and then I could print it.
Is there a way to export a much lighter PDF file from Vectorworks? For instance, for a B&W printout, is there a way to delete color from the PDF?
Also, the image needed to "flatten" as it spooled. Is there a way to flatten the data in making a PDF?
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I am working on a Mac PowerBook, using OS 10.4.11, with VW Designer (Educational Version) 12.5.3
I just drew a courtyard garden design - about 8 layers of various plant types, paths, etc, 2D graphics including color rendering, shadows and the like. I needed to print out a black and white copy at 11" x 17" and so set that up in a viewport and sheet layer and exported it as a PDF. The PDF file was about 3.4 Mb in size.
When I took it to my local Kinkos to print out, however, as the file was printing, it "swelled" to 60Mb while spooling and took 10 minutes to print.
I was able to open the PDF in Adobe Photoshop, flatten it, and save it as a low rez PDF (191k) and then I could print it.
Is there a way to export a much lighter PDF file from Vectorworks? For instance, for a B&W printout, is there a way to delete color from the PDF?
Also, the image needed to "flatten" as it spooled. Is there a way to flatten the data in making a PDF?
Thank you.
Marc
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