Export without images

[Gianni Becattini]

Is there a way to export a pdf without images?

Thanks

[GarryP]

You might be able to use the States functionality to hide/show the images before exporting – see attached video.

The efficacy of that would probably depend on the construction of the document though.

[carl123]

For Publisher and Designer:

Switch to a page that has an image

Select > Select Object > Images

And switch off visibility (in the Layers Panel) for one of the images - the rest will also switch off their visibility

[Gianni Becattini]

thanks to both but none seems to work

states: i followed the video but "images" is empty when I click on it

select: it work just on a page, I have 1000+ more image in a book

 

[GarryP]

3 minutes ago, Gianni Becattini said:

states: i followed the video but "images" is empty when I click on it

I’m not entirely sure what you mean by that but you need to ‘open’ the query to be able to change its settings – I do this around 12 seconds into my video.

[Gianni Becattini]

When I press on the blue button nothing happens (see this detail)

 

[carl123]

8 minutes ago, Gianni Becattini said:

select: it work just on a page, I have 1000+ more image in a book

Make sure you have Edit all Layers set in the Layers panel

If it still does not work, please upload a full-size screenshot, with the Layers panel visible taken immediately after you do Select > Select Object > Images

[Gianni Becattini]

4 minutes ago, carl123 said:

Make sure you have Edit all Layers set in the Layers panel

If it still does not work, please upload a full-size screenshot, with the Layers panel visible taken immediately after you do Select > Select Object > Images

I didn't say that it does not work, but that it works only on a page at a time. Did I understand correctly?

Doing it on a 1200 page book is not practical. I would like something like "exclude images from pdf export".

[GarryP]

12 minutes ago, Gianni Becattini said:

(see this detail)

I can’t see enough to understand what the problem is.

As with what carl123 said above, please give full-screen (whole application UI) screenshots so we can see everything that you can see.

[Gianni Becattini]

Sure, this is a small video. When I press on the left of the "Images" query nothing happens.

...and THANKS!

[GarryP]

Thanks for the video.

In macOS I think you need to use the little ‘arrow/V’ icon to the left of the query name to open the query – it’s not in the same place as on Windows and the Light UI makes it difficult to see.

[carl123]

11 minutes ago, Gianni Becattini said:

I didn't say that it does not work, but that it works only on a page at a time. Did I understand correctly?

It works on all pages at the same time

[Gianni Becattini]

YES! Now both work. For select, the problem was that I should select "image frames", not images. And I didn't see the small arrow...

But I am a donkey: In this way I remove also the page backgrounds and so I see nothing, being the text white.

I found however a solution: during export I set the image resolution to 1 DPI. So the file size reduced from more than 1 Gbyte to 8M.

Thanks anyway.

[Gianni Becattini]

However, you taught me two very interesting things I never used before.

Who knows how much am I losing.... 😀

[GarryP]

You could also, depending on how your document was constructed, use States to help you change the colour of the text where needed.

It wouldn’t be a ‘one-click-solution’ but it’s relatively quick – see attached video.

[Gianni Becattini]

Very powerful, thanks. I am sure I can find many other uses in my case