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Re: Faster watermarker for PDFs -- and the compression suggestion
Subject:Re: Faster watermarker for PDFs -- and the compression suggestion From:Seb <techwritersblock -at- gmail -dot- com> To:"Pinkham, Jim" <Jim -dot- Pinkham -at- voith -dot- com> Date:Mon, 15 Oct 2007 16:53:21 -0400
Hi Jim,
Did you compare your results with Acrobat's compression feature? Depending
on the original settings used to save the PDF, it may have been fairly
compressed to begin with. After a while, the only option available is to
either compress or remove any images in the file, which may detract from
your document.
On 10/15/07, Pinkham, Jim <Jim -dot- Pinkham -at- voith -dot- com> wrote:
>
> I tried the compression app and was less than impressed: It took a 53 MB
> file and squeezed it down to 49 MB, and took a 4 MB file and
> "compressed" it to 4.5 MB. So far I'm having better luck with Adobe's
> native PDF compression feature.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: techwr-l-bounces+jim -dot- pinkham=voith -dot- com -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com
> [mailto:techwr-l-bounces+jim -dot- pinkham=voith -dot- com -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com] On
> Behalf Of Dan Goldstein
> Sent: Monday, October 15, 2007 3:21 PM
> To: techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com
> Subject: RE: Faster watermarker for PDFs
>
> Hi Sue,
>
> Watermarking the source doc would be faster. However, in this case, the
> PDF comes directly from an archive of active documents in PDF format,
> gets watermarked, and goes directly to an archive of obsolete documents.
> Source doc doesn't get accessed during this operation.
>
> I'll let you know after I try the apps that Seb recommended earlier
> today.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Dan
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Susan W Gallagher
> > Sent: Monday, October 15, 2007 4:15 PM
> > To: Dan Goldstein
> > Cc: techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com
> > Subject: Re: Faster watermarker for PDFs
> >
> > What kind of document are you generating the pdf from? If Word, you
> > can use Word's Watermark feature. If Frame, you can add the watermark
> > to the master page(s). Either way should be faster than letting
> > Acrobat do it.
> >
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