PDF files made by FrameMaker - how to reduce file size
Harlan Andrews
handrews at apple.com
Wed Jul 11 20:07:26 PDT 2001
* From the T10 Reflector (t10 at t10.org), posted by:
* Harlan Andrews <handrews at apple.com>
*
Sounds like a worthwhile idea. However, the "drive supplier" members may
not like it ;-)
...Harlan
>* From the T10 Reflector (t10 at t10.org), posted by:
>* "Elliott, Robert" <Robert.Elliott at compaq.com>
>*
>Adobe Acrobat 5 includes two features under Tools/PDF Consultant: Audit
>Space Usage and Optimize PDF. According to the Space Usage report, most of
>the PDF files for T10 standards are consuming significant space for "named
>destinations," which are targets for links. Apparently FrameMaker is
>generating named destinations for every paragraph in the document, not just
>section headers and captions that are link destinations. This wastes an
>incredible amount of space.
>
>Optimize PDF deletes all named destinations that are not being used by links
>in the document, leaving named destinations only for links that are used. I
>ran this on several T10 standards with the results listed below.
>
>In FrameMaker 6, you can uncheck "FrameMaker Format/Document/PDF
>Setup.../Links/Create named destinations for all paragraphs" to avoid this
>problem. Even though the description in the pane recommends that it be
>disabled, the checkbox is enabled by default.
>
>Here are some results based on Acrobat 5 Optimize PDF runs:
>spc2r19.pdf drops from 5,555,362 bytes to 1,791,773 (32% of original)
>spi4r05.pdf drops from 4,513,792 bytes to 3,032,368 (67% of original)
>ssc2r03.pdf drops from 1,305,386 bytes to 716,382 (55% of original)
>srp-r05.pdf drops from 444,600 bytes to 241,215 (54% of original)
>
>In spc2r19, 3,106,732 bytes were being used for named destinations; this
>drops to 67,394 bytes.
>
>Other standards are similarly afflicted. InfiniBand volume 1 drops from 9MB
>to 6MB.
>---
>Rob Elliott, Compaq Server Storage
>Robert.Elliott at compaq.com
>
>
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