AI CS3 FILE SIZE !

Why are CS3 Illustator files, when saved, SO big? Even a business card file is huge...I am linking images, not embedding and still file size is large. Any thoughts?
Thanks. Greg

Hmm.
They're huge because you have lots of stuff in them.
They're huge because you use brushes, effects, transparency, blends, envelopes.
They're huge because they have lots of layers, graphic styles, colors, text.
They're huge because they aren't compressed.
They're huge because what one thinks is linked is embedded.
They're huge because the PDF data is (or isn't) saved along with the AI data.
They're huge because this isn't FreeHand.

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Hi all!
I'm new here and facing a weird problem when saving a BMP as
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nightsignals wrote:
> Hi all!
>
> I'm new here and facing a weird problem when saving a
BMP as a JPEG file in
> Fireworks CS3.
>
> The scanned image is ~94K. When I try to save that as
JPEG, I go for 'Better
> Quality' with a quality of 80 in the options dialog. In
the preview window,
> it's showing a size of 5.25 K. But after saving, I find
a file with the size
> 17.6 K. And so far, I found no way to reduce the file
size. Using the 'Optimize
> to size wizard' and entering a value of 7K for example,
gives a file size of
> 19K as a result.
>
> This is very weird, since other images are compressed
fine to JPEG with
> Fireworks. Using Photoimpact or Paint.net to save it as
JPEG works fine in both
> programs, the size is around 6 K with them.
>
> It looks like FW is storing some other information in
that image, for whatever
> reason.
>
> Can please someone let me know what to do?
>
> Thanks, Ren?
>
>
Are you "saving" the file or "exporting" the file? There is
a
difference. Saving the file maintains meta data for the file.
Exporting
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Patrick,
After I installed and registered my software, I received this email twice for both Premiere Pro and Encore, and I would imagine that it would only make sense to receive this same type of bonus for Production Premium:
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Thanks for the tip, Steven! I will try that now.
- Matt

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