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    Question How to make PDF output file size smaller

    My file size once a pdf has been created are quite a large and therefore hard to email.Dose anybody have a solution or the same problem?

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    Question Re: How to make PDF output file size smaller

    the answers to this could vary depending on a. what program you are in (acad or a vertical? what version) or b. how you're creating your pdf (via toolbar or plot, and what program/driver used)

    any more details could help. I use map2006 and plot with adobe acrobat 6.0 and my file sizes from a dwg are usually about 500 kb.

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    My file size once a pdf has been created are quite a large and therefore hard to email.Dose anybody have a solution or the same problem?
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    Default Re: How to make PDF output file size smaller

    One trick I used to make smaller PDF was to plot to a DWF file then open the DWF and plot that into a PDF. That would reduce the size quite a bit. I was using Acrobat Writer which had problems creating large PDF from AutoCAD. Other PDF programs, I heard, don't have this problem.

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    Default Re: How to make PDF output file size smaller

    If you put this "reduce pdf size" in Google, you will find lots of programs to reduce the size of a PDF-file. The sad thing is that almost all the progs are to pay.


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