[Dabeed]

Greetings all.

I'd like to create a pdf from a one-page Quark document containing just text. I printed it to a Postscript file, opened it in Photoshop, and saved it as a pdf, but I can't seem to get the size down below 1MB. I also tried saving the Quark page as an EPS file, and I've tried converting the file via Ghostscript, all to no avail. I don't feel like dropping $250 on Distiller just to solve this problem. A one-page pdf should be about 180k. Anyone have any ideas?

[thirdeyevision]

Hi Dabeed,

Your Photoshop generated pdf is unnecessarily large in size because it's been rasterized. Another option you can take with your Quark eps is to bring it in to Illustrator and save it to pdf format from Illustrator.

A quicker route would be to just print the file to pdf within Quark with PDF Writer selected as your desktop printer. I'm pretty sure it's bundled with Adobe's freeware Acrobat Reader. It's not as effective as Distiller but for your text only file, should work out just fine.

Distiller's worth the investment if you can.
Best of luck!

MIKE

[Dabeed]

Thanks -- that explains everything -- of course it's been rasterized. PDF Writer doesn't come with Acrobat Reader, but I found an awsome shareware extension called PrintToPDF that does the trick.

[CR_designer]

I'm intersted in getting that PrintToPDF shareware program. Where can I find it?
I don't seem to have the right exttension to Print to PDF currently installed in Quark.

[Nobody]

To get more information about PrintToPDF's benefits and/or limitations or to download the shareware extension, try its website.

CR designer, PrintToPDF works as a printer driver, not as a function within Quark, so try selecting it as your printer and "printing" it. I hope this helps - for more information, try the aforementioned website.