Markus Dierolf Posted February 18, 2015 Share Posted February 18, 2015 I have a very small Logo - a colored rectangle with some white letters on it. So far so good. Filesizes: Designer = 1.5 mb PDF = 1.4 mb (text in curves or as font, doesn't matter)EPS = 45 kb (smallest size is the same) Same thing as I do a new doc with a simple colored area an some text on it. I think the EPS-size is worth the true estimated filesize here. But the AD and PDF filesize is so much more, is it overhead, just not compressed, or ...? And can I do something about this? Or will we gain more controll over PDF specific adjustments with the prepress overhaul? I tried also to open the exportet PDF in Illustrator and save it as standrd .ai format = 3.1 mb filesize - wow! Then I tried the EPS in Illustrator and saved it as standraf .ai format file = 95 kb. Bigger as the original but also ok. Same thing with all files I do. It seems that AD provides larger PDF files than others. This is difficult for me caus size always matters ;) See screenshot for difference. Quote iMac (Retina 5K, 27-inch, 2017), i7 4.2, Radeon 580 Pro 8 GB, 40 GB DDR4-RAM, 1 TB Flash, macOS 10.14.6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff TonyB Posted February 18, 2015 Staff Share Posted February 18, 2015 Can you post the logo? PDF size is often to do with blend modes or other attributes that can cause rasterisation. If you post the file then I can have a look and advise. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Markus Dierolf Posted February 18, 2015 Author Share Posted February 18, 2015 Tony, due it's a project for a company and still not approved by it I'd like to send it to you via email and not via public download. Hope that's ok for you?! Where should I send it? I checked again for blend modes and found nothing like it which could cause a rasterization. I also made a new doc with a red rectangle and only some white text on it (as a test) and it's 1.4 mb - much to big for the data. Any help will be appreciated :) Quote iMac (Retina 5K, 27-inch, 2017), i7 4.2, Radeon 580 Pro 8 GB, 40 GB DDR4-RAM, 1 TB Flash, macOS 10.14.6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff MattP Posted February 18, 2015 Staff Share Posted February 18, 2015 Hi Markus, If you send it to support@seriflabs.com we can pick it up, then delete the file after we've been able to look at the problem for you :) Thanks, Matt Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Markus Dierolf Posted February 18, 2015 Author Share Posted February 18, 2015 Email sent :rolleyes: Quote iMac (Retina 5K, 27-inch, 2017), i7 4.2, Radeon 580 Pro 8 GB, 40 GB DDR4-RAM, 1 TB Flash, macOS 10.14.6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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