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I am working in Photoshop CS2 on a presentation brochure. I need to save about 30-50 files as pdf's that I will then assemble in Acrobat to be able to e-mail.

The problem I am having is being able to save the files at a good enough resolution to be readable and not too pixelated and then small enought that when I compile a lot of them that it isn't too big to e-mail.

I have tried several methods, but the best one that I could come up with was opening my psd files in illustrator, converting the layers and then saving it as a pdf. It works fine for images, but the text doesn't translate over very well. And it takes forever.

I have also tried to print to Adobe PDF thinking it would make a smaller file size, but it just got bigger. I used the smallest file size setting when saving it as a pdf in Photoshop, but then all the images are very pixelated and the text isn't.

 

Anyone got any better options or a great solution??

 

Thanks

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Depends on the resolution youre trying to acheive, but by the sounds itll be WAY too big to email....30-50 images? Just as JPG's imagine how big thats going to be. Making it a PDF doesnt make it magically smaller.

 

Id recommend just saving every page as a TIF (if theyre already rasterised) in the res you need, then just drag them all into Acrobat Pro. Itll prompt to make it all 1 PDF, then off you go.

 

Promise you its gonna be a biggun tho! Maybe have to split it up into a few PDF's, in that case just drag as many of the images into Acrobat Pro as you want.

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Ive had sleepless nights with the same thing.

 

After lots of experimentation Ive realised that its better to do it in a vector program (I use Corel Draw), and then publish to a web friendly PDF.

 

This way all your text will remain text and not be rasterised, your graphics will be compressed to give you an acceptable filesize.

 

I know its too late now, I'm just saying that maybe in future try to stick to vector where you can.

 

Peace

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