Pdf files from Power Point are enormous!

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5 total messages Started by Tiina Wed, 24 Sep 2003 10:21

#608

Author: Tiina
Date: Wed, 24 Sep 2003 10:21

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I have Powerpoint presentations, fairly simple, mostly text and simple graphics created with ppt's drawing tools on program's default templates, maybe some simple clipart included, files size usually etween 100 and 400 Kb. When I print these presentations to pdf with distiller printer driver (in orger to deliver lecture handouts through internet), I get pdfs that are about five times the original ppt-filesize, very slow (if not impossible) to download/open by students, and sometimes impossible to print (or printing takes half a day...).
I've been having this problems since the recent update into Win XP from NT4. I also tried printing first to file, then open the printer file with Distiller to produce pdfs. The file sizes dropped to double (from above mentioned 5 times) compared with original ptt-files, but they are still too large. Any quick fixes to this problem?
Tiina

Re: Pdf files from Power Point are enormous!

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Author: Aandi Inston
Date: Wed, 24 Sep 2003 13:11

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Aandi Inston

Re: Pdf files from Power Point are enormous!

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Author: Dov Isaacs
Date: Wed, 24 Sep 2003 14:29

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Depending upon the version of PowerPoint you are using, gradients and images with transparent backgrounds result in PowerPoint going crazy with calls to the PostScript printer driver with one and two pixel wide images to "fake" certain graphical constructs. The same thing happens, by the way, when to try to print such presentations to "live" printers as opposed to creating PDF. Complain to Microsoft!

- Dov

Re: Pdf files from Power Point are enormous!

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Author: Michael Kazlow
Date: Sun, 28 Sep 2003 04:46

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> Complain to Microsoft!

Dov,

Reminds me of the lyric: You might as well try to catch the wind.

...Mike

Re: Pdf files from Power Point are enormous!

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Author: Waldo
Date: Wed, 01 Oct 2003 14:17

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Do you have backgrounds in the slides? Each slide with the same background
will be stored multiple times in the PDF (even when it is possible to store
it once and reference it multiple times). The printer driver is not aware of
this and will produce huge output like PostScript or PDF. Storing the
background in lower quality might solve your problem.

Waldo

"Tiina" <tijo@uwasa.fi> wrote in message
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> I have Powerpoint presentations, fairly simple, mostly text and simple
graphics created with ppt's drawing tools on program's default templates,
maybe some simple clipart included, files size usually etween 100 and 400
Kb. When I print these presentations to pdf with distiller printer driver
(in orger to deliver lecture handouts through internet), I get pdfs that are
about five times the original ppt-filesize, very slow (if not impossible) to
download/open by students, and sometimes impossible to print (or printing
takes half a day...).
> I've been having this problems since the recent update into Win XP from
NT4. I also tried printing first to file, then open the printer file with
Distiller to produce pdfs. The file sizes dropped to double (from above
mentioned 5 times) compared with original ptt-files, but they are still too
large. Any quick fixes to this problem?
> Tiina

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