taliho Posted May 13, 2020 Share Posted May 13, 2020 HI I have a fairly small .vwx file with a few design layers. I created sheet 1 and 2 with a few viewports. It published to pdf at 4.6MB I duplicated Sheet 1 to create sheet A and B, and sheet 2 to create Sheet C. From A and B I deleted a few viewports - basically spreading the original viewports over 2 sheets., Now when I publish ABC to pdf, the size is 42.4MB These sheets have the exact same viewports, just allocated to different sheets. What has made the output so large? Has this happened to anyone else? It is occasionally randomly happening on new files too. Not all new files. Appreciate any thoughts Mac OS High Sierra, Vectorworks 2020 SP3.1 Quote Link to comment
TKA Posted May 13, 2020 Share Posted May 13, 2020 check under publish settings, options whether you have these sheets set to rasterize, if so uncheck it. Quote Link to comment
taliho Posted May 14, 2020 Author Share Posted May 14, 2020 Thanks - but I do not have 'Rasterize' in the publish options. (Options is greyed out) Since all the sheets are in the same file - why are 1&2 printing to a smaller output than ABC when it seems to be the same amount of content and no difference in the publish settings? I went through the exercise of removing everything outside the boundary of the sheets as well, - no change. BTW - the viewports are 1 site plan, 2 floor plans, 3 elevations and 1 section. Elevations are rendered in Artistic lines and shadow, hidden line. It should be a very 'light' file Quote Link to comment
Pat Stanford Posted May 14, 2020 Share Posted May 14, 2020 VW is notorious for making big PDF files. Open the PDF in Preview. Choose Export from the File Menu. Set the format to PDF and the Quartz Filter to Reduce File Size. You can either create a new PDF or overwrite the existing file to generate a smaller file size. Quote Link to comment
TKA Posted May 14, 2020 Share Posted May 14, 2020 you need to select the the sheet (click on it) then the option will became available, you can select all and have same option set up for all or do it individually, I would recommend to select all and set one setting, the most efficient (no raster and, perhaps, reduced image size to 150DPI) and see how it comes out, then fine tune it with different settings. Quote Link to comment
unearthed Posted May 16, 2020 Share Posted May 16, 2020 @taliho there's another discussion running here right now that you may find useful - Quote Link to comment
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