kaas1769 Posted August 21, 2011 Share Posted August 21, 2011 Hi I recently upgraded to VW 2011 and it seems great other than one major problem. When I export pdfs, they end up being huge!! They are 8-12MB instead of 1-2MB they used to be. They also take forever to render when opened in acrobat. Does anyone have any advice?? Thanks Kaas Quote Link to comment
sig_eigei Posted August 21, 2011 Share Posted August 21, 2011 what platform are you on? Mac or PC? What operating system? If you are on a Mac, I would suggest using a shareware application called PDFCompress (http://www.metaobject.com/). I use it a lot for PDFs of all kinds and with CAD generated PDFs I can sometimes slim down to 90% of the original size. It depends... As far as I know, a lot of factors can contribute to a PDF's size. Maybe you should try to make some PDFs again from the files you have used in the past to see if it's the specific files you are working on or something actually in the new VW code. Quote Link to comment
kaas1769 Posted August 21, 2011 Author Share Posted August 21, 2011 I am on a Mac, os10.6.8, (I have just bought a new mac and want to take small steps before going onto Lion)... I will look into PDF Compress.. I tried to use acrobats "reduce file size" in acrobat and it actually doubled it... I went onto my old computer and old vectorworks and my preferences seem to be the same... Thanks Kaas Quote Link to comment
sig_eigei Posted August 21, 2011 Share Posted August 21, 2011 I would definitely try PDFCompress. It's a bit expensive but I find it indispensable. There are some more laborious solutions for slimming a PDF within Mac OS for free but if you need to slim a lot of PDFs that program is really a good solution. Good luck. Quote Link to comment
mar schrammeyer Posted August 21, 2011 Share Posted August 21, 2011 Followed your advise bought PdfCompress and excellent result 10.5Mb went down to 2.4Mb checked the result on a pc no problem thank you Quote Link to comment
sig_eigei Posted August 22, 2011 Share Posted August 22, 2011 Great to hear, and glad to have been able to help. Quote Link to comment
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