PDF Publishing at 5x its non-published size

[Gregg]

I've never had this happen before. I have a pdf that is publishing 10x its
non-published size. In my local folder, it's less than 5MB. When I publish
it, the published version is over 25MB. Any idea what's causing this and how
to prevent it? I have dozens of sites with nearly 100 PDF's and they're all
the same size locally as they are on the web. Not sure what's up. Thank you
for any help.

http://www.houstonradioadvertising.com/stations.htm (click "Print Media Kit
(PDF")

 

[Mark Fitzpatrick]

I hate to say it, but the thing really is 25 MB. I just downloaded and
checked and it took a hell of a long time. It could be that your local file
is compressed. It could also be all the guitars. They seem to be rendering
individually. They also seem to take forever to paint the screen as they do
it one at a time. I would guess that adobe is treating them as individual
images since they take too darned long to load. I think whoever designed the
file should take a look at it for certain because the performance of it
thanks to the guitars in the back is aweful.

Anyways, the file really is this big and probably has to do more with how
the PDF was created and/or whether or not the file is in a compressed file
locally as it really does appear to be 25 MB when downloaded and there
really is a lot of information in there. FrontPage won't change the file
size when publishing as the file size is a function of the OS as well as the
physical layout of the drive partition and cluster size.

Hope this helps,
Mark Fitzpatrick
Microsoft MVP - FrontPage

 

[BobBob]

I'm no pro, but I had a similar problem when I was making my pdf's by using
the "save as" feature in adobe photoshop. When I left the "layers" option
checked, the files were huge. When the box was unchecked, they were
manageable.