Re: Filesize...

From: Steve Rindsberg (abuse_at_localhost.com)
Date: 10/04/04 

Date: Mon, 04 Oct 2004 14:57:32 EDT

> The idea of course is that I don't have to manualy
> export/recompress/reinsert each of the 12 pictures in each of the 35
> presentations.
>
> The problem I have with PDF is that, on the internet, click-click
> viewing and scrolling down a page that redraws as slowly as PDFs usually
> do, makes a really BIG diffirence.

You're probably seeing the result of very badly made PDFs. A lot of people take
manuals and other print material and convert them to PDF w/o a thought for reducing
the file size to something reasonable. Acrobat will do a pretty good job of
compressing images for you w/o your having to do anything other than set a few
options once.

>I don't care about the effects, the
> point is to let the end user enjoy the viewing experience as (s)he would
> a PPT, while maintaining a quick download speed even for the dail-up
> users and professional image quality (they are photos of microbiological
> culture grownth, with bad quality, the message the picture is taking
> accross, becomes unrecogtnizable).

You'll have to accept that there's an inherent compromise here: the higher the
quality of the images, the larger the file size. Still, if they're photo-type
images, JPG compression in PDFs might be able to get them down to a reasonable size
w/o making them unusable. 

--
Steve Rindsberg, PPT MVP
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