

"Medium" resolution bumps up the resolution and adds clip complex regions, and "High" does no outline conversion and has higher resolutions. "Low" convert strokes to outlines, and preserves overprint. In Acrobat 8 the transparency panel now ships with default settings of low, medium, and high resolution (see Figure 10). If the text appears, the data is still there. To test if the text data is still there, select all in Acrobat, and paste the results into your favorite text editor. Apago's PDF Enhancer offers "searchable outlines" using both mathematical outlines backed by efficient Type 3 fonts for search engines. However, enabling this option will remove the ability to search the text that was within transparent objects.
ADOBE 8 PDF MAKE ALL PAGES UNIFORM SIZE ZIP
This converts the text in your PDF to mathematical outlines which can be smaller than embedded fonts, and compressed with the ZIP compression algorithm.


Note in Acrobat 7 that I've selected Convert All Text to Outlines (see Figure 9). In our case fonts take up the most space, with content streams (text), and document overhead next in percentage of total file size.įigure 9: Transparency Settings Dialog in Acrobat 7 Concentrate your efforts on the largest areas. This dialog shows which components of your PDF are taking up the most space, in bytes for each element and the percentage of total file size (see Figure 5).
ADOBE 8 PDF MAKE ALL PAGES UNIFORM SIZE PROFESSIONAL
In Acrobat 8 Professional choose Advanced -> PDF Optimizer and click on the Audit Space Usage button (see Figure 4). The next step when optimizing PDFs is to audit the size of the different components that make up your PDF. Note that our test PDF (Chapter 2 of Speed Up Your Site, and 2opt.pdf ) is in version 1.3 from Acrobat 4.įigure 3: Selecting PDF Optimizer in Advanced Menu of Acrobat 8 Proįigure 4: Selecting Audit Space Usage in PDF Optimizer You can strip, flatten, downsample resolutions, and remove features from your PDF to minimize its file size. Acrobat 8 PDF Optimizer Review Adobe's PDF OptimizerĪcrobat 8's PDF Optimizer ( Advanced -> PDF Optimizer) is an improved version of Acrobat 7's PDF Optimizer - both of which are interfaces into Distiller's settings (see Figure 3).
