fuberator Posted March 24, 2022 Share Posted March 24, 2022 Hi Anyone got a good workflow for getting PDF export sizes down? I do A3 sized sheets and a lot of pages and the PDFs look great but are unmailable. I can recompress it with acrobat pro but its a bit clunky. There are some online solutions I think Anyway, would love to hear if anyone has ideas Thank you Quote Link to comment
Hans-Olav Posted March 24, 2022 Share Posted March 24, 2022 HI Drawings with elevations (section viewports) tend to be heavy. We often use renderworks or shaded backround render and hidden line foreground render. Under publish, pdf options, setting the file size reduction to High often solve the problem. The vector from the foreground render is crisp although the image background is softer. 1 Quote Link to comment
Tom W. Posted March 24, 2022 Share Posted March 24, 2022 iLovePDF.com was recommended here by someone a while back + I've been using it ever since Quote Link to comment
ColinW Posted March 24, 2022 Share Posted March 24, 2022 PDF Squeezer on MacOS has been my go for years, it’s easy , quick and controllable. Oh, and good value. 1 Quote Link to comment
RGyori Posted March 27, 2022 Share Posted March 27, 2022 I too use PDF Squeezer on my Mac (OS Mojave, soon to be Big Sur) for a variety of application produced or downloaded pdf's. Couldn't be simpler, just drag and drop. Quote Link to comment
Art V Posted March 27, 2022 Share Posted March 27, 2022 Do you have large(r) images in your files? If yes then that may also be part of the problem because Vectorworks used to export the entire image even if it is cropped in a viewport and this may still be the case. In that case recompressing alone wil not be sufficient, then you will also need to use a PDF editor to discard all (image) content outside the page/clipping boundary as well, which may then reduce the file size even more. I would suggest to keep the compression at default settings (i.e. higher quality than maximum compression) and change the resolution and compression in a PDF editor, if the result is not satisfying then you can redo this with less aggressive settings without having to re-export the whole document from Vectorworks. Quote Link to comment
unearthed Posted March 28, 2022 Share Posted March 28, 2022 5 hours ago, Art V said: Do you have large(r) images in your files? If yes then that may also be part of the problem because Vectorworks used to export the entire image even if it is cropped in a viewport and this may still be the case. In that case recompressing alone wil not be sufficient, then you will also need to use a PDF editor to discard all (image) content outside the page/clipping boundary as well, which may then reduce the file size even more. I would suggest to keep the compression at default settings (i.e. higher quality than maximum compression) and change the resolution and compression in a PDF editor, if the result is not satisfying then you can redo this with less aggressive settings without having to re-export the whole document from Vectorworks. Yep, that's still a problem, I tile my images and put each tile in it's own class (partly for pdfing, also for other reasons). Also don't have your pixel density greater than user vie density, e.g. degrading an image to knock it's size down. Also vectorizing some (low colour count) images can get much improvement. Quote Link to comment
fuberator Posted March 30, 2022 Author Share Posted March 30, 2022 (edited) On 3/24/2022 at 6:03 PM, Tom W. said: iLovePDF.com was recommended here by someone a while back + I've been using it ever since Thats actually where I landed after posting. Works great! I actually have no images at all. Its all a mix of wireframe and shaded/openGL graphics on 300 dpi sheets. 8 pages = 27mb. I think the above mention service is really terrific, thats how I do it now. Same 8 pages = 4.5mb, no visible loss. Cheers Edited March 30, 2022 by fuberator Quote Link to comment
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