PDF Compression

Hi
I have a number of pdf;s that are each around 280kb in size. The content of these pdf's is a small image in the beginning and remaining text. I have to download and view these pdf's in iPad device. Although the size of the pdf is small, but there are a large number of pdf's that are to be downloaded.
Therfore, it is required to compress the pdf's in such a way that the download is comparatively much quicker.
Could anyone please suggest a suitable way of compressing the pdf's. Using some of the tools the maximum compression that I can achieve is 26% since the content is mainly text.
Note: The pdf's are getting created from Offce docs: MSWord/MSPPT
Regards

Reader can't do anything to help. You can use Adobe Acrobat to optimize PDF's (reduce file size) to an extent (depends on the PDF).
The offer a free 30 day trial for Windows. I would give it a shot and see if it will help.

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iBook Mac OS X (10.4.8) Quark 6.5

Marshall,
Welcome to Apple Discussions.
colin clarke1’s info is spot on. I will add a bit more. Acrobat Professional includes Distiller in addition to a print driver called Adobe PDF 7.0 (version number matches version of Acrobat). I think the print driver installs automatically, but if not, you should choose to install it and then it will show in your list of printers. This will allow you to make PDFs from Quark XPress much as you did with Quark 4.1.
Distiller comes with some pre-defined Settings (formerly know as Job Options) for different types of printing, i.e., Smallest file (low-resolution like online viewing), Standard, High Quality, Press Quality and others. These Settings are general standards in the industry in terms amount and type of image compression, font embedding, color management, compatibility with previous Acrobat versions and etc.
colin clarke1’s method of saving a Quark doc as a PostScript and then distilling it is one method. (You can set this in your Quark Preferences.) Alternatively, you could do the following within Quark XPress…
(a) Select Print, which brings up the Print window. At the bottom of the window are some buttons. Click on Page Setup and in its window, for Format for: select the Adobe PDF 7/8, the appropriate Paper size and then OK.
(b) Returning to the Quark print window, make all the necessary choices for Layout, Setup, Output, Options, Layers, Bleed, OPI and Profiles.
(c) Next, click on the button Printer (at the bottom) which brings up a Mac OS print window. Click to the right of Printer and select Adobe PDF 7/8. Next, click and hold on Copies & Pages for a drop-down list of options and select PDF Options. Click on the bar to the right of Adobe PDF Settings and a list of Distiller Settings will pop up and select the one that best fit the type of printing you are doing, e.g., Press Quality. If you want to see the PDF version afterwards, then select Acrobat for After PDF Creation. Click Ok.
(d) Returning to the Quark print window, click Print button (lower right). A Save window appears for you to name your document and select where you wish to save in on your computer. (If you choose to see the PDF afterwards, then Acobat will launch and the PDF will then appear in Acrobat.)
You could learn more about the latest version of Acrobat 8.0 (released November 2006) by Adobe’s “tour” at http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobatpro/productinfo/features/
Hope this helps.
PB Ti 667 (10.3.9), PB G3 Firewire (OS 9.1), PB 12" Mac OS X (10.4.7) Wi-Fi, iPod 3G 15GB

Hyperlinks don't activate in the PDF file

Hello all:
I'm working with Pages (v. 1.0.2) and cannot get the text hyperlinks (going to URLs) to work. They work in the Pages app. But when I Print > PDF > Compress PDF, the created file has blue underlined text all right, but when I hover over these links, the cursor doesn't change to a hand that activates the hyperlink(s). Incidentally, although text hyperlinks aren't active on these PDFs, one email hyperlink I've set up on that same PDF DOES work. Go figure!
What might I do to activate every text hyperlink? (If valuable, is there a way to attach the PDF on this Apple Discussion forum for testing purposes?)
T, ia.
Warren
PowerBook G4 Mac OS X (10.4.9)

{quote:title=tmboone wrote:}Here's a snippet of what it's adding "Boones%2527%2520News" It should just read "Boones%27%20News"{quote}
The numbers with % marks get inserted when you use non-"web-safe" characters in your hyperlink. Web addresses are generally best if they only have letters, numbers, forward slashes, and simple punctuation (e.g., - or _). If a URL has a space in it, that is generally converted to %20 (this is known as "escaping"). A single quote would be converted to %27. An actual percent sign would be shown as %25 in a URL. (You can see the codes by looking in the hex column of the table at http://www.asciitable.com/ ).
I think what is happening in your case is that you are beginning with a legitimate with URL with %20 and %27 codes in it. But then somewhere in the process it gets "escaped" again, and the % marks each get converted to %25. Sounds like a bug somewhere between Pages and the PDF writer -- the text is getting escaped twice, and the second time shouldn't happen. You might want to report this to Apple as a bug.
In the mean time, you can make prettier and more reliable URLs by avoiding those weird characters entirely. For example, you could stick in underscores (_) instead of the spaces and single quotes in your original filename, and then it will sail through with no trouble.

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