daf wrote:
> In the interim, PDFCreator is a free win utility and does a great job of
> stripping the extra bytes away: simply install, select PDFCreator as your
> printer and print. The resulting output can be 80% smaller, or more.
>
>
http://sourceforge.net/projects/pdfcreator/>
> By way of example, I downloaded the
mutopiaproject.org version of BWV853b,
> bumped up the global font size to 16, and expanded it to 5 pages. The
> LP-generated PDF was 528K. The PDFCreator version was 90K. I did not
> notice any degradation in print quality, but I tend not to notice stuff like
> that anyhow. And YMMV. But in the interim, the time it takes to do the
> extra print step should pay off handsomely for your dialup email recipients.
>
> Best,
>
> Jay
>
>
>
>>>>> PDF files seem larger than [they used to be],
>>>>> is there something I can do to shrink them?
>>>>>
>
> Laura Conrad added:
>
>>> My users complain about this too.
>>>
>
>
>> For me, the bottleneck is email transmission, where 130K vs 1300K is
>> still significant (approximations for current project).
>>
>
>
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