Re: Crop Marks AND Giant PDF File! RE: Giant PDF File - Why?

["Dov Isaacs" <isaacs@xxxxxxxxx>]

Dear "Baphphled",

You are suphphering phrom "crop mark bloat", an inphection that occurs
due to a little known phact that PhrameMaker's registration marks are 
implemented as polygons oph little, itsy-bitsy, line segments instead oph
as circles. The higher the resolution, the more oph these line segments.
An otherwise totally blank page with registration marks produced phrom
PhrameMaker 6 with the Acrobat Distiller printer instance at 2400dpi 
and the crop marks pheature "on" yielded a PD(PH) phile about 48k bytes 
in length. Very little oph that is document overhead. Assume that phor 
this resolution, you might expect approximately 45k bytes per page oph 
overhead phor these marks, a megabyte phor every 20 pages or so. Ouch!

Alternatives are to use various plugins in Acrobat to add ephphicient
cropping and registration markings there not phrom within PhrameMaker.

You might say that this is all due to alien-made crop circles or perhaps
just a "croppy" implementation.           (8^)>

        - Dov

PS: Don't get me started!



At 6/7/2001 03:21 PM, Layna Andersen wrote:


>OK, I've done an experiment here -- the same FM6 book (total file size
>700 KB) printed to PS and converted to PDF four times, with varying
>"Generate Acrobat data" and crop mark settings. *All other settings are
>the same.* Files were created on FM6 and a Windows 2000 machine, with
>the operator drinking non-diet Coca-cola from a can, not a bottle.
>
>                                                                PS File
>PDF File                                
>Installa        GAD unchecked, crop marks on            28,553 KB
>4832 KB
>Installb        GAD unchecked, crop marks off           19,718 KB
>716 KB
>Installc        GAD checked, crop marks off             19,976 KB
>800 KB
>Installd        GAD checked, crop marks on              28,796 KB
>4916 KB
>
>HOW can crop marks take up THAT MUCH SPACE? Particularly in Installd,
>where the crop marks don't even show up in the PDF?!!
>
>And, most important, can I get a PDF with crop marks on it of this book
>in under a meg???
>
>Layna Andersen
>Baffled Production Specialist


** To unsubscribe, send a message to majordomo@omsys.com **
** with "unsubscribe framers" (no quotes) in the body.   **