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Ok, so my boss sends me 350 MB's of PDF files. There's 72 files, half of
which are "web resolution at 72dpi" and the other half are "full printing
resolution at 300 dpi".
The files are images of our catalogue, and of course they are all seperate
pages. They want me to put something together to show it as a catalogue for
our customers on our website, I.E., they download it).
Bearing in mind that the low-res files are around 1 to 2 MB's, that would
certainly be over 36MB's to download, and I don't think customers would want
to do that whether they have broadband or not. Our competitors are doing the
same thing, but their complete 'hi-res' catalogue is no more than 10 MB's,
and their 'low res' catalogue is around 4 MB's.
So what do I do? Is there a program that will compress PDF files without
taking too much quality away?
I've never played with PDF files before, so I'm at a complete loss as to
what to do. Any ideas?
~Steve~
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St. wrote:
> So what do I do? Is there a program that will compress PDF files without
> taking too much quality away?
>
> I've never played with PDF files before, so I'm at a complete loss as to
> what to do. Any ideas?
PDF files can be compressed internally in a number of ways. In
particular, image data can be stored as TIFF, JPEG or PNG (or CCITT fax,
or even completely uncompressed, but you won't want that).
If the files are just scanned from paper, they might well not be
compressed in the best possible way.
However... how to actually alter such details? I have no idea.
Theoretically Ghostscript probably allows you to do something - but good
luck working out how!
--
http://blog.orphi.me.uk/
http://www.zazzle.com/MathematicalOrchid*
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Invisible wrote:
> However... how to actually alter such details? I have no idea.
> Theoretically Ghostscript probably allows you to do something - but good
> luck working out how!
One possibility that avoids the need to edit the files is to install
PDFCreator (http://sourceforge.net/projects/pdfcreator/), and then print
the PDF's to PDF (PDFCreator allows you to set the compression level).
Also you might want to visit http://www.pdfforge.org/
-- Chris
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Chris Cason wrote:
> One possibility that avoids the need to edit the files is to install
> PDFCreator (http://sourceforge.net/projects/pdfcreator/), and then print
> the PDF's to PDF (PDFCreator allows you to set the compression level).
>
> Also you might want to visit http://www.pdfforge.org/
Don't know if that will work, but it's certainly worth a go... ;-)
--
http://blog.orphi.me.uk/
http://www.zazzle.com/MathematicalOrchid*
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"St." <dot### [at] dot com> wrote:
> Ok, so my boss sends me 350 MB's of PDF files. There's 72 files, half of
> which are "web resolution at 72dpi" and the other half are "full printing
> resolution at 300 dpi".
>
> The files are images of our catalogue, and of course they are all seperate
> pages. They want me to put something together to show it as a catalogue for
> our customers on our website, I.E., they download it).
>
Cynical guess: they were originally created in some format which was much more
web-friendly, or easily exportable to HTML in the original application, but
he's giving you high resolution bitmaps of printouts.
You may have a duty as a computer scientist to stop this problem from happening
again next time.
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gregjohn wrote:
> You may have a duty as a computer scientist to stop this problem from happening
> again next time.
Ah. A wetware issue... These can be tricky to resolve.
--
http://blog.orphi.me.uk/
http://www.zazzle.com/MathematicalOrchid*
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> Cynical guess: they were originally created in some format which was much
> more
> web-friendly, or easily exportable to HTML in the original application,
> but
> he's giving you high resolution bitmaps of printouts.
>
> You may have a duty as a computer scientist to stop this problem from
> happening
> again next time.
Or even fix it this time. Find out who created the catalogue, and if they
can send you the original documents (or at least PDFs of the original,
rather than scanned print-outs).
Tell your boss that nobody puts stuff like this on the web, and if you do
you will be labelled as an old fashioned company with no IT skills ;-)
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"scott" <sco### [at] scottcom> wrote in message
news:4889c582$1@news.povray.org...
>> Cynical guess: they were originally created in some format which was much
>> more
>> web-friendly, or easily exportable to HTML in the original application,
>> but
>> he's giving you high resolution bitmaps of printouts.
>>
>> You may have a duty as a computer scientist to stop this problem from
>> happening
>> again next time.
>
> Or even fix it this time. Find out who created the catalogue, and if they
> can send you the original documents (or at least PDFs of the original,
> rather than scanned print-outs).
Well, yeah I could, but I'm not sure I'll bother, I mean, with the hi res
images, I could just printscreen them to PaintShop or something and then use
Irfanview to compress, and just zip up JPEGs.
>
> Tell your boss that nobody puts stuff like this on the web, and if you do
> you will be labelled as an old fashioned company with no IT skills ;-)
That's exactly what I thought. I mean, isn't a website a catalogue
anyway? I know the reason behind it though, the boss doesn't want to pay for
a catalogue to go to New Zealand, Australia, Canada, etc. He's been moaning
about it recently, tight git. :) (Heh, that felt good!)
~Steve~
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St. wrote:
> That's exactly what I thought. I mean, isn't a website a catalogue
> anyway? I know the reason behind it though, the boss doesn't want to pay for
> a catalogue to go to New Zealand, Australia, Canada, etc. He's been moaning
> about it recently, tight git. :) (Heh, that felt good!)
*slap*
Diago: Ooo, Manny, do that again...
*slap*
Diago: Hey, he likes it!
Manny: It's makin' me feel better goo.
Sid: Very funny guys. :-P
--
http://blog.orphi.me.uk/
http://www.zazzle.com/MathematicalOrchid*
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"Chris Cason" <del### [at] deletethistoopovrayorg> wrote in
message news:4889b5b7@news.povray.org...
> Invisible wrote:
>> However... how to actually alter such details? I have no idea.
>> Theoretically Ghostscript probably allows you to do something - but good
>> luck working out how!
>
> One possibility that avoids the need to edit the files is to install
> PDFCreator (http://sourceforge.net/projects/pdfcreator/), and then print
> the PDF's to PDF (PDFCreator allows you to set the compression level).
Thanks Chris, I'm trying this now, but I'm getting hassle with a 'JIT
debugger' issue, so it won't install. I think I've got it covered though, as
I have to uninstall and reinstall a fresh .EXE of the .NET Framework.
>
> Also you might want to visit http://www.pdfforge.org/
If the above fails, I'll try this. Thanks again.
~Steve~
>
> -- Chris
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