Printer-Friendly PDF?
iago:
Quote from: Cynthia Celeste Miller on November 03, 2008, 03:45:32 PM
Quote from: iago on November 03, 2008, 03:40:11 PM
Yeah, for my printer-friendly stuff I eliminate all background textures and try to go easy on the ink-heavy art.
Yeah, almost all of my art is ink-intensive, as it's full color. Would you suggest eliminating the art outright?
If your stuff has a black line-art basis behind the color, you could probably play with photoshop, making it greyscale, dinking with the contrasts and whatnot so most of the now-grey colors wash out, leaving you with the black line.
But if you're doing that level of effort, losing the art entirely might be easier. :)
Vulpinoid:
Given that perspective, I've gotta agree with Fred here...to a point.
It might be worth having two versions, one with images, for those people who like to print things out for themselves then stick it in a binder (I know a few people who do this), and another version that's really "image-lite" or "image-zero" for those people printing out on a budget.
I realise that this is extra work for you, and I am intimately familiar with the concept of "not being able to please all the people all the time", but most people like options and this certainly makes the product more user-friendly.
V
btrc:
There's printer-friendly and cpu-friendly, and they are often but not always the same. Printer-friendly, as mentioned before, generally means not using up gobs of expensive toner or ink. If your project relies on lots of color pics, not much can be done. You felt the need for the big color illustrations as part of the project, so removing them is probably going to detract from it.
But, it's a given that someone who can download a file with lots of color images is going to have a decent connection, so what you could do is also include a greyscale version of the file. This also gives better quality output for those folks who only have a black & white laser printer.
CPU-intensive means doing images and graphics that optimize quality and minimize processing time. If you're using line art, can you make it high-res bitmap instead of greyscale? Are you using lots of processor-intensive Postscript commands like fancy font effects or gradient fills? If you did any post-pdf editing, did you compress the pdf afterwards? Have you stripped out unnecessary overhead from the pdf file?
I've been doing this for a long time and each job has its idiosyncracies. I tend to create the largest, most complex postscript file possible, and then work my way through the Acrobat Distiller options until I get a combination of file size and quality that I can live with.
Greg Porter
BTRC
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