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File size is ENORMOUS...Send Help!

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August 1, 2017
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This is an 8.5 by 11 doc in illustrator and I know I have two images in there of decent quality, when I save this as a PDF its 550MB. I have evern tried saving in a lower size as well as making sure images werent in as high of quality. This isnt the only illustrator file that this has happened in. Is it because the photos being used start as high quality images? What is happening that my files are taking up this much room? Does illustrator save history every time something happens? Please help!

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MakenadawnAuthor

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Here are my photos

Monika Gause

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So those files are embedded inside the AI file and then you save a PDF with an embedded Ai file. The PDF also has the images embedded, because that's what PDFs always do.

Do you need the AI editing feature? Or do you just need to print that PDF?

Also: those images are scaled to 15%. That doesn't make any sense at all.

First take those images into Photoshop and scale them to the exact needed size at the exact needed resolution.

Then place them into your AI file (preferably linked)

Then save a PDF to exact the specifications you need. Usually you don't need the AI editing features. So turn them off. If someone needs to edit the file, send them the AI file and the source images.

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Saying your images are "big" really doesn't help us to the math. Please answer all the questions put to you carefully, or if you don't understand them please say so.

Mike_Gondek10189183

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No Illustrator does not save history as Microsoft products. Yes the size of the pdf is affected by the size of the images, but excess piles are removed when making the pdf, but this depends on the settings you have used.

If you have already used a pdf preset such as smallest file size, then open the .pdf in acrobat and use reduce file size.

When saving pdf in illustrator

In acrobat

Larry G. Schneider

Community Expert

What's the Effective PPI of the images? Did you scale the images? Have you done a Save As and overwritten the file recently? What are the Compression settings in your PDF?

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MakenadawnAuthor

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The issue is that sometimes people would like the working PDF - so they dont always want the smallest size, I just cant understand what is making this file almost half a gig? It has two images...Im just confused.

ShivendraAgarwal

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Sharing the ai file can be helpful here..

to reduce the pdf size, prefer turning off "Preserve Illustrator Editing capability" and verifying that compression is selected while saving PDF.

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