Panics 'Shrinkit' application... Here's a nice little find... Especially from the more creative types who tend to produce quite a few very large PDF files to send off to print. Or in the case of the rest of you, help save an obscene amount of hard disc space when archiving your material.
An example I can give from today using Shrinkit was for a full page magazine advert that came in at 56.5MB was instantly (and I mean instantly) to a eye watering 4.6MB!
As you no doubt know, the production of PDF files from any of Adobes applications tend to be little on the large side. Even if you select the options to reduce the file size, they still seem to be unnecessarily large. And this, has always confused the hell at me as an equivalent print-to PDF on my Mac seems to reduce the overall footprint of a file quite considerably compared to Adobes output.
Well, it seems that Adobe doesn't in fact strip all of this metadata, swatches etc, even if you select the option to render it non-editable after creation.
But, thanks to the wonderfulness that is Panic Software, You can trash the lot simply by dragging and dropping - and it'll rename the original for you and preserve it in the same folder.
You can download the (free application here 181k) which is also being promoted on twitter by John Nack - Adobes very own...
Compress and store files is surely an art we all must learn.
Posted by: Cheap Computer Canada | April 04, 2010 at 07:01 AM
This software would definitely solve the problem occurring because of PDF files and this is not good that its only for Mac's. Try to make this software for other systems. Thanks for sharing it.
Posted by: cheap computer | June 08, 2010 at 08:20 AM
I think compressing files on PDF is surely a technical job and cannot be done by every one. It is very important that every one learn this function. This software would be very helpful for every one if it works for every system. Thanks for sharing it.
Posted by: cheap computers canada | July 06, 2010 at 06:22 AM