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#INDESIGN SAVING ZERO BYTE FILE PDF#
If you don't own Adobe Acrobat PDF creator, you can also try a different way of reducing the file size of the PDF using free software. Adobe Acrobat PDF creator would be a better tool to use for that purpose. I don't know why you are using Adobe Illustrator as a text editor instead of Adobe Acrobat. If super-imposing isn't possible, if you've got Acrobat or similar, you could delete the incorrect text elements completely in that, save, then place into Illustrator and add new text over the top in Illustrator.
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If the text edits aren't simple enough to do in something like Acrobat, you might be able to place the PDF in illustrator (therefore not converting it into editable Illustrator format, therefore not expanding whatever effect is causing the ballooning file size), then super-impose your new text over the top. If even this doesn't work, chances are Illustrator is breaking something simple into something complicated the moment you first open the PDF. The master application should apply its own PDF settings, hopefully cheerfully annoying all the cruft in the placed PDFs.Īssuming the problem is a load of dead weight behind the PDF, these could trick Adobe into ignoring that dead weight and just looking at the actual artwork.ĭo these from the original, pre-inflation PDF, in case an earlier use of unticking the "Preserve editting capabilities" alongside generous compatibility settings or similar caused an effect to be broken into thousands of component parts irreversibly. Place all the different PDFs into another application (ideally InDesign, one page per page, but you could maybe use Illustrator), then save as one PDF from there.Hopefully this will keep the artwork and leave behind the cruft. Create a new, blank document, with the same page settings, and copy and paste the contents over.If all else fails, there are two brute force approaches to fixing bizarrely ballooned file sizes, which you could try individually or together: I've had PDFs that were stubbornly several megabytes in size even after deleting the entire contents of the PDF! I think Illustrator can sometimes find itself carrying dead weight that it's unaware of. If that's not it, Illustrator does sometimes bizarrely balloon file sizes. I've had this problem when saving Gradient Mesh effects as EPS, never seen it for PDFs but it's possible.
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from Preview, with its PDF settings, creates files with different sizes than Acrobat does when using the same setting.Ĭompatibility between different readers is one thing to try: maybe your new PDFs have broader compatibility than the original? This could cause ballooning file size if, for example, there's a complex effect like a gradient mesh that can be represented as one element in modern readers but needs to be broken into thousands of separate elements in older readers.
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Another unanswered question is why using the Save as PDF. I feel that this is not a particularly good answer, because it leaves open the question of what is in those extra 22Mb added by Illustrator. This reduced to 2.3Mb while preserving image quality (still way larger than the original's 1Mb with equal image quality). What seemed to work best for my purposes was saving as Adobe PDF and selecting "print quality" for the PDF setting. Just using the standard "Save as PDF.", which does not present PDF setting options, also just halved the file size. Selecting "Smallest Size" reduced way down to about 256kb, but hammered image quality. Some of these (PDF/x 1b, e.g.) reduced to about half the original 23Mb. This presents options for the final PDF settings.
#INDESIGN SAVING ZERO BYTE FILE MAC#
From Preview (a mac PDF reader) I printed, then from the lower left menu selected Save As Adobe PDF. I tried this using various settings for the PDF.