Reducing quark file size

October 2, at am Andrew Keymaster. Try to assemble it without those MP3 resources. In any case… packfolder produces compressed archive, similar to zip. October 2, at pm Memory usage is now down to 13MB! This reply was modified 3 months, 1 week ago by jag. You must be logged in to reply to this topic. After making all final changes to your PDF document. When you use Save, the software simply appends your changes to the original document, potentially increasing the file size.

However, when you chose Save As, the software re-writes the file and optimizes the document often decreasing size. After apply the Reduce File Size feature, check the document to ensure there are no negative effects. The window that appears identifies the various elements within the document and their associated file size. Although there is no way within the Audit Space Usage window to reduce individual element sizes, this will help you identify problem areas to address individually.

Reopened and saved with a different name and file is back to normal size about 29MB no clue what happened but we are back to normal anyway….

Is there a simple way I can have all the images reduce in file size without having to open each file individually in Photoshop, reduce the size, and re-import into InDesign? Create a new document. Set the existing document next to this and drag the page thumbnails onto the new document. This will import the pages as is in my case some glitch meant the font changed in some text boxes but an easy fix. When you save the document, the file will be much smaller. I had a 20 page document balloon to MB and after the new file was just 17MB — without changing anything in image size etc.

I used to have to do that trick an awful lot in Quark. Youd need to make sure resample image is unchecked, that way the image will stay unmodified, only the dimension will change, but that will probably mean your images are too small to use now.

I have been working with a huge file that was big last year, and was bigger this year. Doing the export as. All the links looked good, and it went from 2. I just tried this and my filesize is still huge at MB and none of the images are embeded. It is only 8 pages long but does have a lot of shapes. All the images are linked properly. Is there a quick-fix for this that maintains the high print quality I need to send to my printer?

If I can at least get this file down to MB I would be happy. What the heck am i doing wrong and how do I fix it? As you can no doubt tell, I am a complete novice at this. I need a link to a step-by-step process so I can handle this. A more important question is why do you want to make the PDF smaller? I was always under the impression the PDF would actually be smaller than the ID file and the linked images.

Bill: Interesting. But the main issue is your Compression settings for images. For example, Zip compression is lossless no degradation but the file sizes are often larger than JPEG. Are you placing the images as grayscale TIFFs? This might be better handled over at the forums.

When handling images in InDesign on a document, do you must use low res images and once you are ready for printing replace them with high res? It seems that in QuarkXpress, you had to use low res and then replace them. At least this was true a few years ago.

I was creating our 6-page company newsletter yesterday. I was also working on pages 8. I have several images one of which is a large gradient mask created in PhotoShop CS 5. I went back and saved the gradient as a jpeg, thinking that may lower the file size, but it did nothing. The other images are thumbnail size. Play it safe: never overwrite your original document with Save As. Amazing what a simple trick like this can do.

After reading this, I found the single errant. I had a file that was 27 MB big. I made some corrections, and it ballooned out to 2.

Huge file. None of the above helped. Someone somewhere else suggested I save it as a. Then re-open. It might have had something to do with fonts. A font missing dialogue box appeared immediately on saving the new file. This worked so well for me.

When I did the idml trick, it dropped it to 3. I work on a monthly magazine which usually ends up being about 5mb. Last month there were a number of graphics in the magazine, jumping the size up to 60mb. This month, after deleting all of the articles and graphics from the previous month, the file size was still 60 mb. There was no sign of any graphics anywhere in the file, so was mystified as to why the file was still so large.

The file size is now down to 5mb. Thanks for the help! I understand all of the above. My question is that my Indesign file is 65mb yet when I export it to a pdf it becomes mb? Ron: no, PDF file size is usually controlled in the pdf export dialog box. I have kind of a different, but related question. Then , when ready to print, I export a High Resolution version of the same file.

Low-resolution will convert more to raster bitmapped images. Raster often will take more space file size than vector. Does anyone have any other ideas? Hi David, I noticed you first wrote this article in Is it still true for CS6? I am working with many vectors I created in illustrator CS5 and pasted it not linked in Indesign CS3 the vector then still be editable , I use same 6 images each less than KB within 14 place holder, but I wonder why the file gets 75 MB.

This confuses me. Holy easter egg aliens, David! Thank you for, like, probably the 5 billionth time! My InDesign file is created from scanned images saved and pdf, all combined into one document with a couple of text boxes on each page. I need to retain as much quality as possible as the final pdf needs to be projected onto a whiteboard in an average sized classroom so need to be legible by students sitting at the back of the class. Beverly: Your issue is very different from what the original post is about.

You need to work with the PDF export settings to get what you want. This morning my way too big InDesign5 document file was not reducing, no matter what I tried. Nothing worked and after each trial, the file was actually growing. Something was stuck on those pages—and the mess was not cleaning out.

That dropped the file size by more than half of what it was. What is puzzling is why this is happening after all these years of new versions. I love InDesign and have used it since its beginnings. But this one aspect certainly boggles the mind. Export to PDF takes at least 15 minutes.

When opened in Acrobat 7. Also tried printing to postscript and distilling - same result. Also tried printing to pdf through Mac OS - same result.

Any ideas? What about this. Distill that PS to see what you get When I originally distilled the first postscript file I used the smallest file size setting. Not sure why it worked though. I opened the Quark 7 document and exported it as a Quark 6 document. Then I opened the Quark 6 document in Quark 7 again and resaved it.