[softwarelist] Re: pdf import

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> 
> n message <7252eca84e.arnold@arnold.?>, Arnold van der Heijden 
> <arnold@xxxxxxxxx> writes
> >Attached is the pdf which, when saved in Ovation for Windows,
> >gives a filesize of 74 mb.
> 
> I've had a play with this. The conversion from PDF to PostScript does 
> increase the size a great deal (about 74 times)
> 
> I've not been able to find anyway of stopping this occurring.
> 
> My interpretation would be that the problem is that the JPEG data is 
> turned into a bitmap in PostScript, the loss of compression and the 
> inefficient way that PostScript uses to save files leading to the 
> increase.

Yes, but also a simple line of text makes from a 7 kb pdf-file
a about 900 kb Ovation-document. So, it's not only the bitmap
in the postcript.
 
> I'm not sure what situation you are in. If your material is in PDF 
> format then you have no choice other than to deal with PDF files. If 
> your material sets off in ArtWorks for example, then saving as JPEG 
> would be a better idea.

That is a way to handle the problem. It is always possible to make
a jpeg ore tiff from any pdf. But I think this is not the right way:
it takes more time, the quality of fonts and vector is less, the files
get bigger then needed and I guess things like overprint gets lost so
the printcompany has to do a precise job.

Thanks,

-- 
Arnold
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