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From: Jeffrey Goldberg on 12 Apr 2010 18:49
On Mon, 12 Apr 2010, in <tom_stiller-549430.17460812042010(a)news.individual....:

>> I have an 18 MB PDF that I'd like to e-mail to a couple of friends.
>> That's a bit large for a single attachment,

> Why screw around with it? Just use <http://transferbigfiles.com/> and
> send the whole damn thing and be done with it.

I agree. Email is not for large file exchange. Use something like
DropBox or other services that are designed for this kind of thing.

-j

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From: dorayme on 12 Apr 2010 19:40
In article
<alpine.OSX.2.00.1004121747250.241(a)olympe.ewd.goldmark.org>,
Jeffrey Goldberg <nobody(a)goldmark.org> wrote:

> On Mon, 12 Apr 2010, in
> <tom_stiller-549430.17460812042010(a)news.individual....:
>
> >> I have an 18 MB PDF that I'd like to e-mail to a couple of friends.
> >> That's a bit large for a single attachment,
>
> > Why screw around with it? Just use <http://transferbigfiles.com/> and
> > send the whole damn thing and be done with it.
>
> I agree. Email is not for large file exchange. Use something like
> DropBox or other services that are designed for this kind of thing.

If you have space on an external server, and many ISP plans allow
you free space, you can simply upload your file to the server by
FTP. You can either give the direct address to the file or you
can make a simple html page that might look as follows:

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd">
<html>
<head>
<title>Downloads</title>
<meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html;
charset=utf-8">
</head>
<body>
<p>Download <a href="somename.pdf">Some Name (PDF)</a> (18 MB)</p>
</body>
</html>

And keep it for future use or to expand it.

--
dorayme
From: isw on 12 Apr 2010 20:16
In article <tom_stiller-549430.17460812042010(a)news.individual.net>,
Tom Stiller <tom_stiller(a)yahoo.com> wrote:

> In article <isw-9C7375.09583612042010@[216.168.3.50]>,
> isw <isw(a)witzend.com> wrote:
>
> > I have an 18 MB PDF that I'd like to e-mail to a couple of friends.
> > That's a bit large for a single attachment, so I thought I'd break it up.
> >
> > The whole document is 514 pages. I opened it up in Preview, and did a
> > Print-to-PDF of the first 130 pages (about a quarter of it).
> >
> > The resulting PDF is 10.7 MB, more than half the size of the full
> > document. Repeating with 65 pages (one-eighth of the full doc) gives me
> > 5.4 MB, which is what I was expecting for a quarter of it.
>
> Why screw around with it? Just use <http://transferbigfiles.com/> and
> send the whole damn thing and be done with it.

I can think of several non-mail ways to transfer the files (including
just using the Apache install on my Mac). What I was curious about is
why a PDF of 1/4 the pages took a file 1/2 the size.

Isaac
From: Richard Maine on 12 Apr 2010 22:08
isw <isw(a)witzend.com> wrote:

> What I was curious about is
> why a PDF of 1/4 the pages took a file 1/2 the size.

Hard to say without looking at the exact files, but there are plenty of
completely trivial ways this can happen. For example, I've had PDFs with
*LARGE* amounts of overhead foor things like fint bitmaps. Break the pdf
into 2 parts and the overhead goe sin both.

--
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email: last name at domain . net | experience comes from bad judgment.
domain: summertriangle | -- Mark Twain
From: ciscodsl on 12 Apr 2010 23:57
On Apr 12, 7:08 pm, nos...(a)see.signature (Richard Maine) wrote:
> isw <i...(a)witzend.com> wrote:
> >  What I was curious about is
> > why a PDF of 1/4 the pages took a file 1/2 the size.
>
> Hard to say without looking at the exact files, but there are plenty of
> completely trivial ways this can happen. For example, I've had PDFs with
> *LARGE* amounts of overhead foor things like fint bitmaps. Break the pdf
> into 2 parts and the overhead goe sin both.
>
> --
> Richard Maine                    | Good judgment comes from experience;
> email: last name at domain . net | experience comes from bad judgment.
> domain: summertriangle           |  -- Mark Twain

They can also grow by having the re-print output be at a higher
resolution than was used for the original PDF file creation.

One way to preserve the original PDF's density is to use the "Extract
Pages" feature that is available in Adobe Acrobat Professional. Do
this several times to extract the page sets that you want.

mkaras
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