Save art high resolution but small file size

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August 22, 2024
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Hello Community,

Can someone help me? I have art thats gradient full color. I want to save it as cmyk, vector and 300DPI but small file size to send to a priniting company. When I try it says file exceeds 25mb

Thank you

How-to

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Brad @ Roaring Mouse

Community Expert

If you are saving your PDF with "Preserve Illustrator Editing Capabilities", you are essentially packaging your Illustrator working file(s) along with the PDF whuch can make the file huge. Your printer does not need this (unless they have specifically asked for it), so make sure whatever PDF Exports settings you are using that that checkbox is unchecked.

Also: If you are sending to a printer, you DO NOT WANT to save your file "small".

Brad @ Roaring Mouse

Community Expert

Without seeing what you have created, for what it's worth, 25mb is not necessarily a large file for a professional printing company.