InDesign - PDF files

[hAppY pAppY]

I use InDesign to lay out catalogs, and I'm wondering if there is any way to cut down on file size of pdf's when I export. They end up being like 50 MB for a 8 page catalog.

Any Ideas?

[Keyare]

If your document is full colour and it's going on a press - probably not. The default Export PDF dialogue is set for a optimum press settings. Any less and you'll have loss in quality.

Colour bitmaps should be 300, greyscale should be 300, monochrome images should be 1200 dpi. You could switch over to jpg compression if you're not worried about true colour accuracy or image detail.

If it's black and white newsprint or something - you can set the colour mode to greyscale - jpg compression at 150 dpi and it'll shrink the heck out of it and still be good for a black and white catalogue printed at 85 lpi.

If it's for the web you can set everything to 72 dpi JPG... and it'll be tiny.

Just play with it.

What's the end-use of the PDF file?

[hAppY pAppY]

Well, the original file is for press, so I keep that at 300 dpi, but I was also hoping to be able to have a color version available to email. Each time I try and save optimised for web, it distorts all of the artwork, giving it a pixelated look.

[D-Frag]

there might be a way for you to automate the pdf pages in photoshop to save at a lower res....thats all i got, maybe someone else knows a way to do it just in ID.

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-- Acrobat --
If you have the full version of Acrobat 6.0 (I am not sure about 5.0) Once you have the full res version open there is an option in the file menu labeled 'reduce file size'. Simply select it and it will do everything possible to make the size smaller, almost every time without noticable loss of quality.

-- InDesign --
If you do not have Acrobat, when you are exporting as a PDF, you can choose the compression field and select 'Subsampling To' Choose 150 dpi or if that does not bring the file size down enough choose 72, the absolute lowest for good viewing.

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