Acrobat 6 vs Acrobat 7, resulting file size

[JakeWindemere]

I have used Adobe Acrobat 6 Professional for quite some time. I have been scanning in an eight page financial newsletter monthly. The resulting PDF has been less than a megabyte. The quality of the document rivaled the original.

Then I upgraded to 7 Professional. I expected that the compression algorithms to be improved, so I expected smaller file sizes. I was shocked to discover that the same eight page scans had PDF file sized about five times larger. I thought that maybe I could tweak the compression settings but the resulting PDF was lousy and filled with compression artifacts.

Is version 7 a pig compared to 6?????

I'd like to move forward and use 7 but not if my PDFs are significantly larger than what I can generate with 6.

Thanks for your help and insight.

Jake Windemere

 

[jmgalvin]

Open the 7 pdf and go to file menu/reduce file size and see what happens. This removes a lot of duplicate info in the pdf.

In your Distiller settings, check Compatabliity. If you make it compatible with 4 or 5. You should get smaller sizes because they contain less info - that you would not need for something like a scan.

In the Images pane, try compression as Auto jpeg and quality as maximum. Fiddle Downsampling and check result.

Depending on how you're delivering teh thing, you can also go to Preferneces/General and check Save As Optimizes for Fast Web preview.

By the way, unless you're using the fancy features of 7, it migh nt be worth it. If you're just making pdfs for print or web, it's not going to do much for you.

Using OSX 10.3.9 on a G4