Adobe Illustrator Pdf Compression

[Ashlyn Robello]

Isuccessfully worked in Illustrator to create the correct size, I then placed them in InDesign to ensure the correct size and the bleeds and get an eight-page PDF. Exporting to PDF took way too long and crashed InDesign. It may be even too big to work on our digital press.

What are my options? Is there some way to unilaterally flatten all the layers in Illustrator before I save it as a PDF to place or even just save it as a PDF that I can then combine to send to the digital press??

How it makes the file smaller is by defining a set of rules that forbid the use of certain PDF functions that are irrelevant for printing purposes and to enforce others that do improve its usefulness in prepress.

If you aren't worried about the text being selectable, you can open the PDF directly in PS and eliminate the step of separating the text from the image layers in AI (being sure to Crop To: Bleed Box) for each page. Just place each flattened file into the INDD and then export to PDF.

In my experience the large file size is due to Illustrator saving extra data help the file be easily editable when you re-open it. The most reliable method I have found for getting rid of this data is to save the file from Illustrator as a .eps or .pdf, and then open the file in a program call "Inkscape" ( ). From Inkscape I re-save the file. The majority of the time this removes most of the extra data (I tried doing this to two example files on my computer and it turned a 30MB file into a 10MB file and a 2.60 MB file into a 0.29MB file). This method is not perfect and will not always reduce the file size to what I know the file size should be.

When you save your file from illustrator to pdf make sure unckheck illustrater editing capabilities, embed page thumbnails. Also check compression to downloadable sample to 150dpi.Make sure the pictures used are also to a minimal size (image size).

An iOS app should be as lightweight as possible, and PDFs are really hefty comparing to PNGs. For example, a simple monochrome 32x32 icon PNG usually takes no more than 1 KB, while the same PDF icon can easily take 200 KB! (I tried Fazaal Naufer's solution and got the 600 KB icon!)

I had a really large document just 2 pages but the file included a lot of clipping masks and transparencies.(at 25MB) What I do is rasterize the whole page and then save it as PDF/X-1a:2001. Because, I find that if you don't rasterize it, you will see the outline of your text boxes and if you place a png you may see the border around the image... just didn't feel comfortable with those this lines.. So after doing those steps, the file was down to 5000kb. Much better!!

When I export assets from xd, it generally takes more space. And I can't directly import files from xd to photoshop, so first I have to import into illustrator and then to photoshop and then I can use save for web to optimize my assets.

So please incorporate a feature so that I can directly export assets from xd with compression.

@adobe any updates on this? We love using Xd for web ad assets for the ease of use, duplicating artboards, etc. The issue is when we export the assets as png or jpg, we don't have advanced options like type optimization, better file compression, etc. The exported assets with type always seem blurry compared to being exported in Illustrator or Photoshop.

Agreed here. Image optimization like in photoshop or Illustrator would be great. A lot of the time, imagery, especially imagery with copy is blurry. Would be good to have the ability to adjust the optimization settings.

I agree - image optimization needs to be enhanced so we don't need to compress further with other programs. I exported some banner ads from XD. For a test I opened that image in PS and exported for web and saved over 60% of the file size with the same file format and high quality to max. I also use ImageOptim regularly to help optimize again if needed.

Also - I have to run everything through Tinypng.com to get decent file sizes. Tinypng strips lots of unnecessary code content out and reduces the file down to what is really needed (lossless). Would be helpful for Adobe to look into this.

Files are generally bigger prom XD than they are from Photoshop using the exact same compression levels of a JPG. PNGs have no options to switch to 8bit from 24 bit PNGs and no further options as seen in Photoshop. It's pretty easy to see where XD falls a long way short here. Just open the programs and compare.

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