Greetings "Tim Doty" < drakki%40rollanet.org">drakki
rollanet.org>
On 23/08/2007 at 02:30 you wrote concerning
Re: [PageStreamSupport] Re: PDF file size redux
Hello Tim,
Many thanks for the explanation you gave below.
TD>>; <<snip>>
TD>>; PS> "PageStream does not (yet) downsample embedded bitmaps," you will have
TD>> to PS> do that by hand or rely on the postscript file/external ps->pdf PS>
TD>> converter process.
TD>>
TD>> Would you explain what the quoted part of the sentence above means? Thanks
TD>> and
<<snip>>
TD> Option 1: by hand
TD> For each image make sure that the image is no more than x DPI. So if you are
TD> using a 600 dpi image but want a smaller file size drop the image to, say,
TD> 72 dpi. You can do this by resizing the image in a graphics editor. In the
TD> gimp this is Scale Image.
TD> Option 2: rely on the postscript conversion Adobe Acrobat provides this sort
TD> of capability so you can configure it to produce a PDF with graphics no more
TD> than x DPI. If you use Acrobat for making PDFs from PageStream this works.
Cheers Don (Green Dragon)
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