rudipooimf opened this issue on Apr 02, 2002 ยท 14 posts
duanemoody posted Tue, 02 April 2002 at 10:44 AM
To recap: the print-to-PDF drivers for Mac/Win are deliberately slow and bloated to make you buy the full version of Acrobat, which sports a license for the LZW compression algorithm used in GIF and compressed TIFF. The exception is the PDF export PageMaker uses, which is optimized. Remember to check your export options: some PDF generators save space by downsampling embedded JPEGs. As someone who routinely archives the Freestuff pages here as an index to my downloads, I know whereof I speak...