[dba-Tech] Adobe InDesign to pdf

Bryan Carbonnell carbonnb at gmail.com
Mon Aug 8 22:03:20 CDT 2016


Glad you got it sorted out.

B

On Mon, Aug 8, 2016 at 5:24 PM, Tina Norris Fields
<tinanfields at torchlake.com> wrote:
> 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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