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How to create a pdf document?

I have a document from which I want to create a pdf file.  I have created a pdf two different ways:  1) Using the printer app, and 2) Using the app that I used to create the document in the first place and choosing Save As a pdf.  In both cases the original document was 975 KB and the pdf was 2.2 MB!  A friend of mine took the same document and created a pdf which was only 1 MB!  He used a Windows machine.

Just how different OSes handle the same function. Couple of things come to my mind - the windows friend is actually creating an adobe pdf. On the OSX side, chances are, you are creating a pdf version meant for the Preview app. Also there could be metadata from your document that is getting saved on the OSX side which the windows version could be throwing out of the window.

I would not worry too much about the difference in sizes. You are doing the right thing.

Cheers.

Do you know of a good, free PDF converter for the Mac OS X that actually creates an adobe pdf?

My friends smaller pdf also retains the active links to web sites; whereas, the OSX side shows the links; however, they are not active.

I could send my file to my Windows machine to get the smaller pdf with the active links.  Not so elegant!

Should I be posting this discussion on the OS X board?

Joy -

I believe that if you make the PDF with the application that the document was made in, you can choose lots of different options  . . .In InDesign, for instance, there are all kinds of levels you can choose from:  size, dpi, etc.

You can choose options that can make a 3MB doc, down to 98 KBs.  If you make the PDF from Safari, I cannot find those options.  I really like Adobe for this.

Take a look at Graphic Converter.  It's an excellent little Mac app with a great developer. https://download.cnet.com/GraphicConverter/3000-2192_4-10057380.html

~Bee

The document that I was having all the trouble with (size growth and broken links in the resultant pdf) was from Microsoft PowerPoint (Office 2011 - Mac).  I tried the Save As a pdf from the app and was given no choices.

jog --

Have you tried taking a screen shot?

That's a very easy way of producing a PDF.

https://hosting.intermedia.net/support/kb/default.asp?id=923

Seriously, Graphic Converter is a great little app, if you don't have Adobe.

I have figured it out, sort of.  First I do not want to pay $35 for an app for my Mac that allows me to convert to pdf.  If I ever need to create a smaller pdf for screen viewing and/or one which retains the active links then I will use my PC.

I used Powerpoint (Office 2010) on the PC to create a pdf which was good for web viewing and screen viewing.

So the basic problem is with the Mac - both with the basic software which blows up the file size when converting to pdf and kills the links, and with the Office for Mac which uses the basic Mac software.  I will not pursue this problem with Apple or Microsoft (Office 2011).

One thing Office for the Mac gives you is the capability to Reduce File Size when saving the pptx doc; however, when then creating a pdf I get the same expansion/kill features.

So now I have a strategy which will work fine for me.  Use the PC at selected pdf creation times.

you can also open your newly created pdf with Preview and tell it to save as.. and 'reduce file size.'

here's a better way:

if you're in a program with a file tab in the menu bar,  go File>Print. in the dialogue box that appears there should be a PDF drop-down menu. in that menu click "Save as PDF", and there you go!

Not in my version of Preview.  I can open a pdf in preview; however, when go to Save As I have no such "reduce file size" option...

I have tried this too.  Still file bloat and active link kills!

Hey,

you can use the automations in this website:

macpdf.net, it's free and easy just right click and create your PDF.

Raz.

Apple's built-in Preview application (free) alone sufficient to make small changes in PDF documents. When you double click on any PDF file, it opens, by default, in Preview. You can use Preview app to merge, split, mark up, annotate, and sign PDF files. Preview is the easiest solution to view, create and edit PDF documents on Mac.

With long documents or for complex editing tasks, third-party PDF editors like PDFPen or this one (cheap alternative to PDFPen) are the best bet.

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