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lauragalora99
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June 13, 2023
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Can you compress gradient mesh objects when exporting to pdf?

  • June 13, 2023
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I have an illustration that has multiple gradient mesh objects in it and upon exporting to a pdf it's massive no matter what I do with compression. The file is only 8.5x11 but has a multitude of little water drops created with gradient meshes. Is there any trick to getting an emailable pdf around 10mb or so when you're dealing with such detailed objects?

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    Monika Gause
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    Monika GauseCommunity Expert
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    June 13, 2023

    Emailable for which purpose?

    If you want to send your portfolio, maybe just rasterize the complete artwork (make a copy of the file of course)

    If this is for printing: don't use e-mail. Put it on a server, share the file via Creative Cloud or whatever is appropriate.

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    lauragalora99Author
    Inspiring
    June 13, 2023

    It's a package design that I need to email to the client and various others to view and approve. I ended up exporting a jpeg but a pdf would be preferable so they can zoom in and see everything clearly up close. It's one of about 10 different concepts that need to be shared to numerous people that are not server savvy, hence the email request. Is there no way to compress grad mesh?

    Monika Gause
    Community Expert
    Monika GauseCommunity Expert
    Community Expert
    June 13, 2023

    Sounds like the perfect example for sharing your work for commenting.

    https://helpx.adobe.com/creative-cloud/help/share-for-comment.html 

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