Re: Question on size of converted files

[Dov Isaacs <isaacs@xxxxxxxxx>]

Assuming that your "companion in crime and fellow tech writer" is 
requesting that FrameMaker "generate Acrobat data", you might want to
check whether he is requesting "named destinations". If so and they
aren't needed, try turning them off. By the way, I suspect that there
is more difference than just some conditional text and variables between
a 60 megabyte and 75 megabyte FrameMaker document. You could "Gone with
the Wind" plus some illustrations in that difference! And some features
that take little space in a FrameMaker document, such as paragraph styles
that reference before and after frames from the reference pages can
really bulk-up your output since they are effectively macro calls.

By the way, those are quite big, honking documents your associate has.
He should seriously consider import by reference as opposed to embedded
importing.

        - Dov


At 4/30/2002 06:24 AM, Kathryn Howard wrote:
>My companion in crime and fellow tech writer asked me to post this to the
>list:
>
>"A 60 Mb Frame doc converts to a 3.7 Mb pdf. A 75 Mb Frame doc (25% larger)
>converts to an 8.5 Mb pdf (129% larger). The only difference between the
>Frame docs is the larger one contains conditional text and variables.
>What's going on?"
>
>FYI, this happens during conversion using Distiller 4.0 and when he
>converts (don't hurt *me* Dov; he's the foolhardy one!) in Frame (6.0 with
>SGML).
>
>Any ideas, oh wise ones?
>
>Thanks in advance!
>
>Kathryn


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