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From: isw on 12 Apr 2010 12:58
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.

What's up with that?

Isaac
From: dorayme on 12 Apr 2010 15:42
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.

Check to see how big the resolution is of the pictures in it,
this is perhaps quite a factor in making up the size. If the
person you re sending it to is going to view it on screen rather
than printout over 500 pages, then exporting the whole show at a
lower res will reduce the overall size, it can be dramatic.

--
dorayme
From: AES on 12 Apr 2010 15:46
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.

PDFShrink is a nice utility for shrinking PDF file sizes. Don't recall
if it's free or just low-priced, but worth looking at.
From: Tom Stiller on 12 Apr 2010 17:46
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.

--
Tom Stiller

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From: BreadWithSpam on 12 Apr 2010 17:50
Tom Stiller <tom_stiller(a)yahoo.com> writes:
> 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.

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

Or get a DropBox account and share a public link to the file.

--
Plain Bread alone for e-mail, thanks. The rest gets trashed.
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