Re: Insanely Large PDFs
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- Subject: [mg79378] Re: Insanely Large PDFs
- From: Roman <rschmied at gmail.com>
- Date: Wed, 25 Jul 2007 05:28:09 -0400 (EDT)
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I have not tried this, but maybe the "pdfopt" tool would help, instead of going through the Acrobat reader. Roman. On Jul 25, 8:44 am, yat... at mac.com wrote: > 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