Look at the size of my PDF's

[Catherine_Guest@adobeforums.com]

Hi All

I've just joined the forum and am probably the only person to respond so late to something posted so long ago, but put it down to African time if you like. Buko, in response to your "3MB is positively tiny for me" I thought you may be interested to know that here in Cape Town, South Africa, if you want to send an ad to either of the two daily English newspapers, you can only email it directly if it is UNDER 2MB!!!! I was horrified to discover this when I sent an ad (pdf) that was 2.1MB and I kept getting that irritating email response "Your email was unable to be delivered" without any further explanation. Only after the 4th phonecall to the newspaper was I told that if the ad is more than 2MB it must be ftp-ed. Ludicrous ...
Catherine

[Buko@adobeforums.com]

Then FTP it.

I consider 5MB is small. when I send magazines to printers the PDFs are 300 to 400MB I have to FTP the files. You just need to learn how to use your computer.

[Claudio_González@adobeforums.com]

Buko, you have said more than once in this thread that 3 MB is tiny for you. And several other people have explained why 3 MB is huge for them. I have read perfectly valid reasons that have nothing to do with learning to use your computer.

[Buko@adobeforums.com]

Well 2.1 MB may still be considered large by some.

but to say its ludicrous to have to ftp a file to the printer.

Its not Adobe's fault that some companies email accounts don't allow over 2 MB attachments.

[Claudio_González@adobeforums.com]

Well 2.1 MB may still be considered large by some.




Yes. For example, for someone wanting to email a newsletter mostly to individuals with small mailboxes, and connected through telephone lines (believe it or not, such people do exist; and they are not just a handful). Insisting in telling that 3 MB is tiny for you isn't really a help.

[Jay_Chevako@adobeforums.com]

Someone wanting to email newsletters should take file size into account
when designing it. As for print ads, even if you properly size your
images with the correct resolution, many time the resulting pdf will be
larger than 2MBs. Yes a 2MB size limit on email is low, But there is no
excuse for a designer not to know how to ftp a document.



Jay

[Dave_Saunders@adobeforums.com]

Bear in mind that a lot of the space in PDFs exported by InDesign is consumed by color profiles. If all you care about is size and you'll take your licks on color fidelity, then don't include profiles in the exported PDF.

Dave

[Peter_Truskier@adobeforums.com]

Its not Adobe's fault that some companies email accounts don't allow over
2 MB attachments.




But in some circumstances, bloated PDF output appears to be a "feature" of InDesign's PDF export when compared with Distilled output, right?

[Bob Levine]

Correct and it's been acknowleged by Dov.

Bob