[dba-Tech] Adobe InDesign to pdf

[Tina Norris Fields]

I think I found the culprit.

Back story, here.  The printer uses cmyk color space, of course, while 
most of my graphics are in rgb color space.  With the printer's 
representative, we set up a preset just for preparing pdfs for them, 
because we all thought that might produce better quality photos in the 
paper.  Well, the problem is inside that one (and it really wasn't 
helping any, either).

I switched to the high quality compression and ran a trial - this time I 
got a pdf of about 12 MB, whereas the one that was created from the 
printer's preset was over 600MB!. Holy Toledo!

Since when I package the InDesign project and send it off to my graphics 
guy for the ads, he then recreates a final pdf and it's always a 
reasonable size - even though I know he got the monster pdf from me.

I'm much happier, today, since I made that switch.

Thank you for responding,

TNF


Tina Norris Fields
tinanfields-at-torchlake-dot-com
231-322-2787

On 08/08/16 10:35 AM, Bryan Carbonnell wrote:
> When Exporting to PDF, have you tried all the various PDF Presets to
> try and get a smaller size?
>
> B
>
>
> On Mon, Aug 8, 2016 at 12:32 AM, Tina Norris Fields
> <tinanfields at torchlake.com> wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> When I export an Adobe InDesign document to a pdf, I get a huge pdf - I mean
>> huge. I completed a 12-page tabloid-size newspaper and exported it to a pdf
>> so my partner could look it over. The thing was over 600 MB. This is
>> ridiculous. When I get the completed pdf back from my graphic artist after
>> he places the ad artwork, the pdf is a tenth the size of what I sent out.
>>
>> I need to discover why my InDesign documents become gigantic pdfs, and then
>> I need to correct whatever the reason is.
>>
>> Does anybody here have experience with this?
>>
>> Thanks for any thoughts,
>>
>> TNf
>>
>>
>> --
>> Tina Norris Fields
>> tinanfields-at-torchlake-dot-com
>> 231-322-2787
>>
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