Insanely Large PDFs
- To: mathgroup at smc.vnet.net
- Subject: [mg79371] Insanely Large PDFs
- From: yatesd at mac.com
- Date: Wed, 25 Jul 2007 02:21:15 -0400 (EDT)
Using Export or File -> Save As.. and then creating a PDF from Mathematica Version 6 creates huge PDFs. If you open the PDF in say Adobe Acrobat Standard, and then simply resave, the resultant file can be much smaller. For example, a notebook that had lots of graphics in it went from 14 megabytes to 400 kilobytes. Presumably, Acrobat is compressing the graphics and removing any font information that is not required (but hopefully not stripping out the Mathematica fonts.) I looked around for an option in Mathematica so that it would save the PDF's in compressed form and with only the required fonts embedded, but have not found one. Does anybody else know how to create reasonably sized PDF's directly from Mathematica? Derek