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Is there a way to export reasonably sized PDF's in XD?

Forum|Forum|7 years ago
February 20, 2018
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I am doing fairly simple long page layouts. Example size would be about 1920x5000 pixels. The PDF exports, although very crisp and stable, are super-huge. The example here is about 45MB. I really like the quality of the exports, but it is a pain to bring them into PS to resize and get down to manageable size. Any ideas?

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Correct answer Preran

If you have Acrobat Pro, can you try reducing the size of your PDF files using these options?

Optimizing PDFs in Adobe Acrobat Pro

I see a feature request similar to what you have posted. You can vote for it using this link for the team to prioritize it.

PDF Export - compression options to reduce file size – Adobe XD Feedback : Feature Requests & Bugs

Thanks,

Preran

Bell Team

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Only 6 years on but thought I would mention you can export as JPG or PNG then just open them in Acrobat and resave as a PDF. File size is 3x smaller. You can do a batch too by just selecting all the images and dragging into acrobat.

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neilpieman

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A frustrating and utterly ridiculous problem. Never seen anything so unusable. Anyway, I went to the old school fix - export your artboards as JPEGS and then use the JPEG's to Create a PDF in Acrobat by selecting the Multiple Files option. I know it's digital first as an application but clearly this needs a fix.

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Brandtagonist

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This is STILL amazingly terrible. Not all clients want prototypes. They want PDFs, and I can't send them 60mb files. You'd think Adobe would be able to able to export a reasonably sized PDF from XD at this point.

Also none of the "solutions" in this thread work. Opening Acrobat and "compressing" doesn't do anything.

Sandhill Studio

Participant

Totally agree!! This is quite frustrating.

sateesh rajak86122637

Participant

Simply use this link and optimize:
https://acrobat.adobe.com/link/acrobat/compress-pdf/?x_api_client_id=adobe_com&x_api_client_location=compress_pdf&dropinId=verb-compress-pdf

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Chris22179530p8au

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That link did not work. I dragged my 23mb pdf onto the site and selected High Compression, which estimated the reduced file size to about 7mb. It said the file was successfully converted, but the result was a 21.3mb file.

Adobe MUST fix this in XD!!!

Rishabh_Tiwari

Community Manager

Hi @Chris22179530p8au ,

Sorry to hear about the trouble. Let me assure you I'll share your feedback with the team, and you can do that too by voting for the request shared in this similar discussion.

Regards

Rishabh

catherinef28753315

Participant

This didn't work for me, tried all your solutions, a two page web file went from 11.4mb to 10.9mb, not worth the effort. Adobe really need to fix this issue. Tried to "reduce file size" and "optimise file" with no chagne to file size.

Rishabh_Tiwari

Community Manager

Hi Catherin,

Sorry to hear about the trouble. We can surely test this on our end so will it be possible for you to share a sample file with us? I'd also need the details like the version of XD and the Operating System.

To share the file, you can add the file to shared storage and you can share the link through DM. To send the DM, please click on my name and while sending a DM, please add this discussion link in the subject.

Regards

Rishabh

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active_power1549

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So I had an old school idea to fix this problem, and it worked! I had a six-page XD file that I exported to a PDF, it was 25MB far too large.

So I opened the PDF in Acrobat and choose Print>Adobe PDF, for page size I selected "choose paper size by PDF page size", and "Use Custom paper size when needed".

I then went to Properties and Choose High-Quality PDF, and on the Advanced Tab of the Print Dialogue box, I went to color management and selected "Same as Source (No Color Management)". Check "Print to File."

One small addition in the properties when you Select High-Quality Print, be sure to uncheck "Rely on system fonts only..."

It creates a .ps file, simply double-click to create your PDF (be sure to reselect High-Quality Print).

Anyway worked beautifully, my 25MB file went down to 2.1MB Enjoy!