I am new to this AUGI, so I apologize if this is being posted in the wrong forum.
I work mostly with retail interiors, and rollout stores. So we do a lot of sets that are very similar but not the same. The problem I am running into is that our specification sheets are too large when we print to PDF. The dwg file are some where around 126kb each but when we print to PDF they become 8.5MB. This is understandably an issue.
I did read that if we make the font a truetype font and check that the PDF printer is converting it to text instead of graphics in the plotter configuration it would reduce the file size, which it does. However we typically publish all of the sheets together (35+). This becomes an issue because if I use the settings that work to reduce the file size on the specifications it makes all of the text on the other sheets PDF much bolder, and almost unreadable, than if I have the "True Type as graphics" option selected in the plotter configuration.
I had heard that if you print your PDF to PDF it reduces the file size, which it does 1MB in my experience. This is good but not great and the added step makes it a time suck and therefore not realistic for every day implementation.
I also read that if you use a third party PDF printer that the file size would be smaller. I tried Cute PDF writer, because I had some experience with it at another firm, but had no success with reducing the file size.
So my question is, does anyone know any other ways to reduce the size of a PDF of mostly text? Any thoughts or suggestions would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.
Scott MacDonald, RA CSI CDT