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Topic: Re: Acrobat 6.0/4.0 and Mac-Windows problems. (Via Email)
Conf: (P-PDF) Mac Issues, Msg: 107657
From: LeonardR
Date: 3/15/2004 06:03 AM

At 01:45 PM 3/14/2004, p-pdf-mac-issues Listmanager wrote:
>I use Acrobat 6.0 with MS WORD X on an iMac with Mac OS 10.3 and Acrobat
>4.0 with MS WORD 98 on a PB400 with Mac OS 9.2. I created a WORD X
>document on the iMac with the CE (Central European) fonts, and used
>various ways to create a PDF file. With Palatino CE embedded I could never
>make the file smaller than 900 K.

Without knowing what the "various ways" you used were, it's hard
to say if you've done anything incorrectly or not. I would esp. look at
your Job Options in Distiller/Adobe PDF printer and make sure you have font
embedding AND subsetting enabled...


> I had to reformat the document to fit WORD 98, create a PDF file using
> Acrobat 4.0 under Mac OS 9.2. Then the corresponding file was not only
> smaller (about 630 K) but showed perfectly also when opened by a Windows
> Acrobat Reader.

What did you use to create the PDF? PDFWriter? If so, your font
was NOT embedded and will NOT display properly on other computers that
don't have the CE fonts installed.


>Moreover, I took this PDF file, opened it under Acrobat 6.0 on the Mac OS
>X machine, reduced file size and got a PDF file of size 300K showing
>perfectly (in both environments). [Even without Palatino embedded, i.e.
>running Distiller under Smallest File Size, Acrobat 6.0 on its own could
>get me a 480K file only].

Because one is a PDF 1.2 document, the other is a PDF 1.5 document
- there is more information to be had in the latter.


>Question 1: Is there any way of embedding Palatino CE using solely Acrobat
>6.0 so that it will show properly in both environments?

Of course.


>Question 2: Is there any way to get closer to the size 300K , with
>Palatino CE embedded, directly from Acrobat 6.0 without reformatting for
>the Mac OS 9.2, WORD 98 and Acrobat 4.0 running laptop?

Two suggestions::

1) Use the PDF Optimizer feature of Acrobat 6 and set the compatibility
setting to 1.3.

2) Try a 3rd party PDF reduction tool such as PDF Enhancer
(http://www.apago.com/enhancer.html)


Leonard

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