My lowres pdf is 300mb, normally it should be about 10 mb max.

Forum|Forum|1 year ago
June 8, 2024
4 replies
7821 views

I want to create a PDF with the smallest file size. However, it will be 300 MB in size, while normally it is a maximum of 10 MB. I use large images, more than 600 dpi, but they should be automatically reduced in size with a low-res PDF. Is there a setting that is preventing it from working as I would expect? I already read something about downsampling, but I can't find that when I export.
Can anyone help me further?

Import and export

This topic has been closed for replies.

danpinho

Known Participant

You placed complex AI/EPS (Transparency, Multiply, etc.)
To identify the problem, try converting them (the suspicious ones) to JPG (not ideal, I know) and save PDF again.

Hope it helps

E

Eugene Tyson

Community Expert

If a document is not behaving well then try

File>Export

Choose IDML

Open the IDML in InDesign
Save the file as a new InDesign file with a new name
See if the issue persists.

H

hanneke61Author

Known Participant

Thanks for the suggestion. I tried this but it didn't help. The PDF was the same size again. Then I created a new document and dragged all the pages into it. This also gave an equally large file.
I make a similar booklet every year, I exported last year's booklet and that worked well, it was 5 MB.
Is there anything else I can try?

H

hanneke61Author

Known Participant

I also exported different pages to see if there would be one image that causes the problem. I exported page 1-10, that gave 59 mb, then I exported one spread 11-12, that gave 1,5 mb. So also not here is the issue