http://www.dopdf.com/forum/ Discussion forum for doPDF users. en Thu, 09 Feb 2012 10:57:27 +0000 http://www.dopdf.com/forum/topic/keeping-file-size-down#post-560 Mon, 02 Feb 2009 07:33:19 +0000 Softland 560@http://www.dopdf.com/forum/ <p><strong>Update</strong>: Starting with doPDF version 7.2 it is possible to select with what compression engine you want to create the PDF, so either create a "Small file" or a PDF with "High quality images" (detailed on <a href="http://www.dopdf.com/forum/topic/major-update-dopdf-72353-released" rel="nofollow">http://www.dopdf.com/forum/topic/major-update-dopdf-72353-released</a>). So if you want to create small PDFs make sure you choose the "Small file" option and not the second one.</p> <p>The most common size problem with word documents that contain images is that when you insert an image into word if you resize it manually from word (or word does its automatic resize), the entire size of the image is still kept. So one solution to reduce the file size of a pdf printed from a word document with images is to force word into compressing and deleting the cropped areas of the images in the entire document. An example on how to do that (however please make a copy of the word document before doing this, so that you'll have the original copy with higher resolution and non-cropped images, and this second one with lower resolution and cropped images):</p> <ul> <li>Make a copy of the original word document, and open the copy. Right-click on one of the images, go to the <strong>Picture </strong>tab and click on <strong>Compress</strong>.</li> <li>A new window with compress options will open. Make sure that <strong>Apply to</strong> has <strong>All pictures in document</strong> selected. On the <strong>Change resolution</strong> section, check <strong>Web/Screen</strong>. Last, on the <strong>Options </strong>section make sure <strong>Compress pictures</strong> and <strong>Delete cropped areas of pictures</strong> are both selected.</li> <li>Now click on <strong>OK </strong>and you'll get a prompt that the quality of the pictures will reduce. Click <strong>Apply </strong>to accept that, save your word document and after that print to doPDF again. This should considerably reduce the size of the PDF.</li> </ul> <p>This is a screenshot of where to find that Compress window, it's for Office 2003 but I'm sure in Office 2007 there's a similar option:</p> <p><img src="http://www.dopdf.com/images/reduce-size.jpg" alt="Reducing PDF size" /> </p> http://www.dopdf.com/forum/topic/keeping-file-size-down#post-553 Sat, 31 Jan 2009 23:12:36 +0000 PaintedParadise7 553@http://www.dopdf.com/forum/ <p>I need serious help. I need to keep my pdf documents under 2 MB. For instance, I created a word document that had pictures in it. When I was done, the document was .98 MB, I opened up the print option and chose doPDF v 6. It converted over to pdf, but shot the file size up to 2.15 MB. I compressed all of the pictures down before I even placed them in the document, so that isn't the problem. Help! </p>