pdf file size

[kerrysmagicshirt]

:confused:

i have designed a poster in photoshop for a client (a3)
flattened the imaged and saved it as a PDF

it has come out 24mb large. i'm fairly wet behind the ears when it comes to pdf's as i normally save my work as a jpeg (backed up with the origional psd) but this seems to be unreasonably large. Considering that pdf is supposed to be the universal way to send documents and most emails only support upto 10mb attachments.

My client i completely computer illiterate and requested a pdf.

can anyone tell me how to reduce the size please.

[Satchel]

If it's just for proofing reasons, save it as smallest file size in your pdf pre-sets... you can also try to reduce file size (under file > reduce file size) and see if that helps.
S.

[Thomas51471]

Did you save it out of Photoshop as a pdf file? If so, if you have alot of layers and other stuff going on, then it will make it big (same things if you save out of illy too). Using the distiller will give you the smallest optimized file size, but you have to save it as a eps first and then run it through distiller.

If you don't do that then save it as a regular jpg without layers and then open that jpg up and save it as a pdf file and see if that helps any.

[Mynock]

That doesn't really work all that well. I would go with Advanced>PDF Optimizer it works wonders.

[kerrysmagicshirt]

its for a proof at the mo but i will have to supply the finished artice as a pdf. thanks for the advice.

where so i find advanced>pdf optimiser in photoshop or in acrobat?

[kerrysmagicshirt]

ok against Mynocks judgement i saved it as a jpeg then converted this as a pdf - it has worked fine, but understand that this may no always be the case.

the only reason for this is because that's all my tiny brain could handle at this time in the morning (it's about 11.00 here) as i'm yet to have my morning coffee.

i would definatly like to know the best way to do this for future ref. so could you please elaborate on the optimize pdf instruction. thank you

[PrintDriver]

It's a poster?
Over 11" x 17" at 300dpi? (I forget what your A sizes correspond to all the time. LOL.)
Then your pdf is probably the right size without compression. About 25 to 40MB is normal for a flattened Photoshop file at that size at proper resolution.

Posters are considered large format and you may need to utilize ftp to submit them online to a printer even as a pdf.

If we are just sending something for a client to preview we use a lower resolution and optimize for screen/fast web view to make the file emailable. You wouldn't want to print from one. But these are usually only for content check, not color or resolution.

Actually Photoshop isn't really the best layout program for something with text in it. Rasterized text tends to be 'fuzzy' compared to the sharp vector text of a program like InDesign, Quark, or for a single page poster even Illustrator.

[PersonasBinar]

You can convert your text layers to shapes in the layered PShop file and "save vector data" in your PDF or EPS file, that will retain the crispness of your text.

[kerrysmagicshirt]

Thanks all - i realise i should have used In design but i tend to shy away from it because i've only just swapped over from quark.

muchos gracias