Mac Preview Compress Pdf Compress
Preview is a free mac program provided by Apple to manage PDF and image files. It is built in a feature to reduce PDF file size. 1) On your Mac, double-click on the PDF file you want to compress to open it. By default, it should open with Preview. If not, make sure you do open that file with Preview. 2) In the menu bar, click on File, then click on Export. To compress PDF files with Preview without worrying about quality, first open Preview from your Applications folder or Dock, and then open the PDF document you want to compress. If you're distributing PDF files via the Internet, it takes only a few minutes to compress the file via Preview, a utility like PDF Shrink or PDF Enhancer, or Adobe's full-fledged Acrobat Pro.
I have a 80 K Word file. The file is one page, some text and a 12 KB .jpg file imported in. I then duplicated the jpg graphic 7 times (8 total images).
Here are the resulting sizes when creating PDF's using different methods within Mac OS X print menu:
Save as PDF 550 KB
Compress PDF 5.2 MB !!!!
Save as PDF w/ Quartz reduce file size 2.5 MB !!!!
Compress PDF w/ Quartz reduce file size 2.1 MB !!!!
I recreated (from scratch) the same content using Canvas. I got the following:
Canvas X 'Save as:PDF' 56 KB
Mac OS print pdf 550 KB
Mac OS print compress PDF 2.5 MB !!!
Can anyone explain what is going on??? I can make the file available if you with to play with it.
Version Details:
Word 2004 (11.2)
Mac OS X 10.4.7
Thanks much,
Mace
Intel iMac 20', PB15 Alu, iMacG4 17, Sawtooth Mac OS X (10.4.7) Many other Macs from 128k on.
Pdf Compressor Mac
Ccleaner mac os. Posted on Sep 2, 2006 7:56 PM
