Can't get duotones to compress in pdf

[macsuva]

Hi!

I'm having trouble creating a lowres pdf of a document containing duotones to show to my client for reviewing.
The duotones are made with Photoshop 7 (change modus to duotone) and imported in a Quark Xpress 6.52 document. Then I export as pdf with 72 dpi settings, but the pdf is still high resolution and the same size as with 300 dpi. If the document is larger (more pages with more duotones) Xpress quits without warning. Changing the preview options while saving the epss doesn't make a difference.
The strange thing is that when I do this with a Xpress document someone else made it does compress the images in the pdf, but as soon as I import a duotone-eps myself in that document it stays hires. A CMYK-eps works fine.
I hope someone can help me.

Kind regards,

Macsuva

[steve2112]

Do you have acrobat standard or professional. If so just use pdf optimizer after making you pdf to downsample to 72 dpi. Besides that I am not sure. Best bet is to output a postscript file the use distiller to make it at whatever settingin you need. Making a pdf straight from quark is a crap shoot sometimes. Always make a postscript file then distill.

Steve

[macsuva]

Thanks for your reply Steve. I've managed to get a 72dpi pdf with Distiller, but with my configuration it means making a 35 mb PS file, then starting up OS 9 and Distiller and process the PS file. Quite a lot of work/time to create a pdf just so my client can see I made the right corrections in the text that he sent me. ;) Usually Export as pdf works just fine for that kind of job.

Macsuva

[frailer]

Your configuration would make all that a bit tedious, as you say. If all you're doing is showing the customer some type fixes, what about doing screenshot(s); assuming you trust yourself to be able to output the job properly via eps, after they have OK'd the type fix.

By the sound of it you're on OSX; Cmd>Shift>3 [full screen], Cmd>Shift>4 [marquee with grey crosshairs]. This throws a pdf on the desktop [picture1, picture2 etc...], which you can then attach to your email. Pre-enlarge before capture so it's not too pixel'd.

I do this for emailing type-fixes in prepress all the time, but you gotta trust yourself further down the output path and DOUBLE check yourself at output time. I concur with the previous comment about Quark/jaws PDFs being iffy at times. ;)