I really need someone to explain to me what kinds of things are unseen in InDesign files that cause file size issues. Here's my scenario: I created a tutorial using some PNG art files. It was sitting around 50MB which is too big, IMO. So, I've spend the last 4-5 days trying to make it smaller. I resized my pngs significantly (surprisingly, it didn't make a difference really) and removed a few (that did). I was able to bring it down to about 39MB. It does shrink when exporting to PDF, which is what I will be doing, but this is also before I add my photos so I want it to be as small as I can get it. Font problems have made it necessary to create outlines, so I did and my file size now jumped to 54MB. I did Save As of this file. My copy was 28MB!! What the heck!??!! How can it copy at almost half the size? I took the COPY and removed more artwork yet as well as a few pages. And my file jumps to 58MB. Which seems very opposite to what should happen when removing things. So I did another Save As of this new one (now with fewer pages and artwork than the original 54M document). It saves as 32MB. I'm now incredibly leary of trusting my computer. Anyway, I have been playing around with this for what feels like forever and it's all the same kind of unreliable results. I'm completely confused. What am I not seeing here that makes this understandable? Is there something about trusting the file size info in Finder (using a Mac) that I should not be doing? I've wondered in the past if those numbers were real. Where else can I see the file size to compare? Please and thank you for any clarification. (The document contains hyperlinks and a TOC, in case that makes a difference.)
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