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Re: Compressing Images

Pagemakers@officeformac.com	18 Jan 2008 21:54
Any idea why the compress PDF option was removed from Tiger. I would have thought it would been a great feature.

William Smith

18 Jan 2008 21:21

> Compress PDF is an option that is available in Tiger; it's no longer present
> in Leopard. In Leopard, save your document as a regular PDF file, then use
> Spotlight to find an application called ColorSync Utility. Drag the PDF file
> onto the icon in the dock, then select "Reduce File Size" from the Filter
> dropdown button at the bottom of the screen. Save the file, and the size of
> the PDF file should have decreased.

Fantastic idea! I wonder if the new Automator actions could facilitate
this. I do see in Automator (when I sort by Applications) PDF -->
Compress Images in PDF Document.

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Michel Bintener

18 Jan 2008 19:36

Compress PDF is an option that is available in Tiger; it's no longer present
in Leopard. In Leopard, save your document as a regular PDF file, then use
Spotlight to find an application called ColorSync Utility. Drag the PDF file
onto the icon in the dock, then select "Reduce File Size" from the Filter
dropdown button at the bottom of the screen. Save the file, and the size of
the PDF file should have decreased.

On 18/01/08 19:43, in article ee88e46.6@webcrossing.caR9absDaxw,

> Daiya I do not see a Compress PDF option at all.
>
> Word 2008 and Leopard.

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Pagemakers@officeformac.com	18 Jan 2008 18:43
Daiya I do not see a Compress PDF option at all. Word 2008 and Leopard.

Daiya Mitchell	18 Jan 2008 17:04
See what happens if you use File \| Print, and on the Save as PDF button, it has a dropdown that offers Compress PDF. > John I agree with you 100% (BTW I meant 1MB not 1 GB). > [quoted text clipped - 20 lines] > printing to PDF. Then compress the image and print again and the > resulting file is much smaller.

Pagemakers@officeformac.com

18 Jan 2008 14:41

John I agree with you 100% (BTW I meant 1MB not 1 GB).

I will explain further.

I run a website for a corporate company. On a regular basis they send me word documents. I convert them to PDF and upload them to the website.

Despite my continual requests, many of the documents contain large graphic files. In word for PC that is not a problem. I click a single button called 'compress images' and their file size is optimised for the web.

However on the Mac edition there is no such option in word to compress images.

So I go back to my original question.... Why is this feature not in the Mac edition of office?

Is there another simple way within word I can compress the images?

Re you comment above JPGs can be made smaller in the PC version of word. This can be proven by inserting a document into word and then printing to PDF. Then compress the image and print again and the resulting file is much smaller.

John McGhie

18 Jan 2008 11:37

That's not what I said :-)

I have no idea what will happen in PDF. Word doesn't do PDF on the Mac,
that's handled by Mac OS X or directly by Adobe Acrobat.

You would have to ask Apple or Adobe what would happen in PDF.

Generally, the answer will depend on what image format you're using. RAW,
TIFF and BMP will compress. GIF, PNG and JPEG are already compressed: they
can't be made any smaller.

I would gently suggest that if you are handling 1GB photos, Word is not your
weapon. If you were working for me and you put 1 GB pictures in my
documents, I would come looking for you, and it would NOT be to give you a
pay rise :-)

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On 17/01/08 11:10 PM, in article ee88e46.1@webcrossing.caR9absDaxw,

> So are you saying if I have a 1GB photo in a word document and then print the
> document to PDF. The Mac and PC file sizes will be the same even if I
> compress the image on the PC and not on the Mac?

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Pagemakers@officeformac.com	17 Jan 2008 13:40
So are you saying if I have a 1GB photo in a word document and then print the document to PDF. The Mac and PC file sizes will be the same even if I compress the image on the PC and not on the Mac?

John McGhie

17 Jan 2008 11:39

Yes, and it's built-in.

To expand on what J.E. said: there is no "function" provided to the user to
compress images in Mac Office 2008, because it's not needed. Mac Office has
no other way to store images except "compressed".

However, if you are looking for the PC's "Compress these images for
emailing" feature, J.E. Is quite correct, we don't have that :-)

Cheers

On 17/01/08 10:07 AM, in article ee88e46.-1@webcrossing.caR9absDaxw,

> The PC version has an option to compress images in documents. I used this
> feature all the time but cannot find it in the Mac 2008 version.
>
> Is there such a feature and if not, why?

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Pagemakers@officeformac.com	17 Jan 2008 00:37
The PC version has an option to compress images in documents. I used this feature all the time but cannot find it in the Mac 2008 version. Is there such a feature and if not, why?

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