Sizing Save as PDF Output

One of the volunteer activities I do is to help manage the photograph archive of the family data pages in historic and fragile family Bibles. I like to first produce the data pages in a PDF so that nearly anyone transcribing can use a PDF reader to zoom in on a particular portion of the old handwriting. Where others have first photographed with basic digital cameras and the file is a modest size JPEG, going to Print Images, and then using Save as PDF produces a multi-page PDF containing all the images that is manageable by nearly any computer.
My last effort was with images taken by me with my D300 in RAW. The images clean up really well, but producing a PDF in similar manner creates a rather huge PDF file (over 1.2 GB for a 20 page document) that is sluggish to use even on my Mac Pro -- but you sure can read it.
Therefore I am trying to understand the "science" of how all the conversions take place to produce the PDF when the underlying images in Aperture are high resolution files of significant size. I cannot find that Export preferences have any bearing on this, but maybe I am missing something.
Ernie

It sounds like you are printing a PDF from a raw file.
I don't understand the science, but I did a test recently in a similar situation.... the PDF of a 12 Mgb raw file ballooned to over 60 Mgb! So I exported the raw file as an original size jpeg, which trimmed it to just over 8 Mgb.... and then "printed" a PDF from that, and it stayed at just over 8 Mgb.
That should reduce your file to about 153 Mgb, which will be much more manageable.
Also, you can play around with either the export settings for jpeg, or the PDF print options to get that down even more.

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Whether the printer supports color (Acrobat Distiller does)
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Paper handling (totally irrelevant to Acrobat Distiller if input or output tray selection via "setpagedevice" is found in the PostScript stream, it is ignored by Acrobat Distiller)
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I understand that sometimes this is frustrating because we think that
"there must be an easy way to do xyz"... Try to come up with a different
way of doing things.
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On Tue, Mar 12, 2013 at 4:54 AM, Test Screen Name

Use Artboards disabled when trying to save as PDF in Illustrator CC

Use Artboards disabled when trying to save as PDF in Illustrator CC

Then there's no reason to "Use Artboards". If you had multiple artboards in the file, then you could choose among them for the output but with a single artboard, only one will be output.

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