pdf binders too large for practical use

[JBirdieH]

I've got hundreds of sets of images (lists of covenant documents and maps for plats) that are pdf binders (Adobe v. 8). The problem is they are too large for emailing and attaching to policies. We've got space restrictions on the title server and when you attach them to each policy you're also duplicating them.

Problem: I cannot find a way to appreciably reduce their size while keeping the documents in indexed multipage format AND maintaining readability (I've tried downsampling). There can be 200 multipage documents as well as maps in each set. The size reaches 15,000 kb even in a cleaned up pdf.

Any ideas?

 

[apepp]

...if the maps within the binder are vector based, and you have, as mentioned, experimented with the acrobat clean up optimised pdf, then you will unlikely get the file size much smaller, unless you go through and convert anything detailed vector to a bitmap, via photoshop and then re-combine...

...RGB (or GREY) pdf's are smaller than COLOR/CMYK pdf's so you can try the convert colors option under the advanced > print production...

...then once you have made changes to a PDF (copy of the original), you can file > save as, which does a clean up in its own right...

...sometimes, saving back out to postcript from acrobat and then re-distilling can help...

Andrew

 

[FredWagner]

Use the technique I described in the last post - convert the file to JPEG 2000, then create a new PDF from the JPF's you created. Rename the file with a logical name, don't leave it as a 'binder'.
If it's still too big to email, split into a couple of files - part A, part B, etc. to do that, Extract Pages 1 - 50, save as part 1, extrat pages 51-100, save as part 2, etc. then attach to separate emails!
Also, if your corporate email still won't handle them, use a gmail or yahoo! account to send them on their way!

Fred Wagner