To all,
FILE SIZE REDUCTION WITH LOTS OF TEXT – SOLUTION Smile
Thanks to all who commented on this one. I tried various .shx fonts, most the same file size, two were double this & a similar .ttf resulted in a file size of 34mb from what I thought 9.9MB was too large ...yikes..!!!
Anyway I managed to get the exported pdf file size down from 9.977MB to 2.160MB by creating a self-xref of the construction notes layer only, then save the self-xref layer to it’s own layer name, then turn the original construction notes layer off & replace all the notes back on the plan with this self-xref version.
This is way cool & has got me thinking about plans in general when starting to get too large for e-mailing in pdf.
I’m thinking when a project is ready to export to pdf, just create a set of self-xref plans instead. It obviously works with text, so perhaps it may shrink the file size down further when doing it whole-sale.
Over & out,
Clayton.
FILE SIZE REDUCTION WITH LOTS OF TEXT – SOLUTION Smile
Thanks to all who commented on this one. I tried various .shx fonts, most the same file size, two were double this & a similar .ttf resulted in a file size of 34mb from what I thought 9.9MB was too large ...yikes..!!!
Anyway I managed to get the exported pdf file size down from 9.977MB to 2.160MB by creating a self-xref of the construction notes layer only, then save the self-xref layer to it’s own layer name, then turn the original construction notes layer off & replace all the notes back on the plan with this self-xref version.
This is way cool & has got me thinking about plans in general when starting to get too large for e-mailing in pdf.
I’m thinking when a project is ready to export to pdf, just create a set of self-xref plans instead. It obviously works with text, so perhaps it may shrink the file size down further when doing it whole-sale.
Over & out,
Clayton.
Trotman & Taylor Architectural Consultants U.K.