RE: Save as PDF file size

[Dov Isaacs <isaacs@xxxxxxxxx>]

OK, I tried this out myself on representative, complex documents
using both (1) print to the Acrobat Distiller printer instance
with "generate Acrobat data" turned off and (2) save as PDF with
absolutely none of the PDF tagging, threads, bookmarks, etc., named
destinations, etc. enabled. I also made sure that the default PDF 
joboptions associated with the "Acrobat Distiller" printer instance 
were exactly the same as those which I select from the "save as PDF"
dialog. In the worst case, the PDF file created by "save as PDF" was
approximately 1 kbyte larger than the PDF file created via the 
"Acrobat Distiller" printer instance. In this case, the difference was
1 kbyte out of 313 kbytes, not particularly significant. I would
attribute the difference to housekeeping metadata.

With FrameMaker 7, I would absolutely NOT characterize printing to the
Acrobat Distiller printer instance as opposed to "save as PDF" as a
better practice at all, but rather an alternative practice for which
any resultant PDF file size difference (one way or the other) should 
be negligible if both methods are parameterized comparably.

        - Dov


At 10/15/2002 01:42 PM, John Posada wrote:
>Nick...what problem do you have with doing the right way and printing to
>Distiller without "gen acrobat data"? The file is smaller, which is what you
>want, and it is the "best practices" way of doing it anyway.
>
>John Posada
>Senior Technical Writer
>Barnes&Noble.com
>jposada@book.com
>212-414-6656
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Nick Howard [mailto:nick@fml.com]
>Sent: Tuesday, October 15, 2002 4:43 PM
>To: framers@FrameUsers.com
>Subject: Save as PDF file size
>
>
>Hello,
>
>Using Frame 7 Save as PDF I get a PDF that is 284k. Not terribly large,
>but the customer wants it to be as small as possible. When I print to
>Distiller and then distill the postscript I get a 69k file. If I print
>to Distiller with the "Generate Acrobat Data" option checked then I get
>a 284k file. Where is the option in Frame 7 to turn off the "Generate
>Acrobat Data" option when using the Save as PDF option? In the
>Format->Document->PDF Setup options I have unchecked everything.  
>
>That's what I'm assuming I'm doing wrong, but I'm open to any thoughts.
>Thanks for any help and I hope I didn't overlook this in the archives.


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