Advanced Acrobat compression techniques...

[alanbloom]

I am looking to be able to compress a document intelligently and as much as I can without losing too much quality into a PDF document.

Normally, Illustrator only allows you to chose options which is applied to all the images. Hence, if you have a small logo that needs detail and a large image that requires heavy compression, you can get a compromise but nothing that treats the images differently.

Is it possible to import the images as you want illustrator to store them? What I mean by that is if I compress those images with photoshop so that I have optimised each on its merits, is it possible to import those into Illustrator as they are? My aim is to individually optimise each image, combine them into Illustrator and save as a PDF where Illustrator *doesn't change them at all*?

Sorry if that's confusing

 

[apepp]

hi,

you should be able to set your export function to not compress when creating the pdf, save as > adobe pdf > choose no downsampling and it should honor your original image compression and save as a pdf. this setting can also be saved as a preset, hit the save preset button...

have fun!
andrew