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1. Re: ID CS4 – massive difference in PDF size (Document Overhead)
myDwayneSmith Aug 8, 2010 10:25 PM (in response to myDwayneSmith)Further to this....
If I use PDF Optimizer and run only Discard document information and metadata — this brings the file size down to an appropriate level (it also discards important prepress data, nice).
If I copy the entire contents of the ID file into a fresh document — things work correctly again (luckily I've got a script which does this nicely)
So, I can only assume that the ID file has somehow become corrupted (even though it seems to work fine in all other respects).
Any other explanations for this behaviour?
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2. Re: ID CS4 – massive difference in PDF size (Document Overhead)
Stix Hart Aug 8, 2010 10:41 PM (in response to myDwayneSmith)myDwayneSmith wrote:
So, I can only assume that the ID file has somehow become corrupted (even though it seems to work fine in all other respects).
Probably right, have you tried exporting to idml, opening that again and exporting from there?
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3. Re: ID CS4 – massive difference in PDF size (Document Overhead)
myDwayneSmith Aug 8, 2010 11:39 PM (in response to Stix Hart)Thanks Stix
Unfortunately, this is a reprint of a book created a few years ago (when workflow practices at this place lacked a little foresight) and I'm only tracking down links for the pages that need to be resupplied to the printer (because of text edits, etc). So, inx and idml are not helpful as the previews are lost for any images with broken links — hence the need to copy across every spread into a fresh document.
Interestingly, I DID try an inx export so that I could at least get the spreads out that I need for the printer. The resulting PDFs were just as huge. I then tried an idml export. Two of the three PDFs exported correctly after this conversion, but one of them was still just as huge. Just for kicks, I tried the idml export a second time — this time all three PDFs were huge again. Very weird stuff.
But, with the time it takes to export and open an inx or idml file — it was actually quicker just to create a fresh file and copy everything across.
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4. Re: ID CS4 – massive difference in PDF size (Document Overhead)
Stix Hart Aug 9, 2010 12:00 AM (in response to myDwayneSmith)That is very weird indeed, because an inx or idml export should clean up a document if anything does. The other thing to try of course is binary separation, i.e. split the document in half and try each half, and try to narrow it down to a particular element, but if it's not happening every time that makes this difficult.




