 |
 |
Distiller: When distilling from Quark images are all low resolution in the pdf
|
|
|
|
|
Mac Elite
Join Date: Mar 2005
Location: LV-426
Status:
Offline
|
|
I'm finishing a project for a client that has to get a pdf for printing. This is a university paper thing.
I have Distiller 6 and Quark 6.5 and am following (I think) every instruction, but the images are all very low res. The total size for the images in the source folder (after collecting for output) is 120 MB (all are eps jpegs) but the resulting pdf is just above 5 MB. Something is clearly wrong.
Anyone have an idea? Please help, I'm supposed to deliver this today!! 
|
“Building Better Worlds”
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Professional Poster
Join Date: Mar 2003
Location: In the South
Status:
Offline
|
|
Originally posted by Weyland-Yutani:
I'm finishing a project for a client that has to get a pdf for printing. This is a university paper thing.
I have Distiller 6 and Quark 6.5 and am following (I think) every instruction, but the images are all very low res. The total size for the images in the source folder (after collecting for output) is 120 MB (all are eps jpegs) but the resulting pdf is just above 5 MB. Something is clearly wrong.
Anyone have an idea? Please help, I'm supposed to deliver this today!!
Not necessarily a problem.
Do you know which Distiller Setting?
Wanna send me the PDF and I'll check it for you?
You can PM me.
Keri
|
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Grizzled Veteran
Join Date: Apr 2004
Location: Philadelphia, PA
Status:
Offline
|
|
Originally posted by Weyland-Yutani:
Something is clearly wrong.
I think Adobe found a wormhole in compression... I have seen many very large files go down to impossibly small sizes just using the ZIP 8-Bit compression options... I would not be surprised if your file is fine. Time magazine and many of the other large pubs are using the PDF/X format instead of getting the cumbersome QXD and font and art packages. The output files under PDF/X are very small.
|
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Mac Elite
Join Date: Mar 2005
Location: LV-426
Status:
Offline
|
|
Originally posted by KeriVit:
Not necessarily a problem.
Do you know which Distiller Setting?
Wanna send me the PDF and I'll check it for you?
You can PM me.
Keri
Thanks 
I think I've solved the problem.. I went into the Distiller application and turned off all compression on pictures. It was on high quality jpeg but I turned it off. While this doesn't make 100% sense to me it seems to have solved the issue.
The pdf created is now 150 MB and all the photos look like they are in full resolution. Thank you very much for offering to help, it was very nice of you!
|
“Building Better Worlds”
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Mac Elite
Join Date: Mar 2005
Location: LV-426
Status:
Offline
|
|
Originally posted by eyevaan:
I think Adobe found a wormhole in compression... I have seen many very large files go down to impossibly small sizes just using the ZIP 8-Bit compression options... I would not be surprised if your file is fine. Time magazine and many of the other large pubs are using the PDF/X format instead of getting the cumbersome QXD and font and art packages. The output files under PDF/X are very small.
A 50 MB TIFF can easily become a 3MB JPEG with nearly no visible loss. That 3 MB JPEG can not be reduced further without loss of quality.
The photos I was using were JPEGed EPS files so they were already compressed. The lot of them weighed in at about 100+ MB together. After distilling them into a pdf it became 5 MB. Had they been uncompressed TIFFs they had been about 1GB. A 1 GB photo compressed down to 5 MB isn't going to be pretty 
Thanks for your input though.
It is much appreciated.
|
“Building Better Worlds”
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
 
|
|
|
Forum Rules
|
|
|
|
You may not post new threads
You may not post replies
You may not post attachments
You may not edit your posts
|
HTML code is Off
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Top
