PDF Resume Help!!!
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- mobius
help help!
im having problem with a pdf document size.
you see, i scanned a doc @ 300dpi, saved it as jpg and it was 1.7mb, then i took it into illustrator and placed it on a canvas, and saved it as a pdf and it turned out to be 3mb over!!!so is there way to reduce the file size to below 1mb?
- unknown0
all i know is, that is not the way to go about making a pdf resume (:
- mobius0
its a reference letter not the actual resume.
- lind0
Download Contribute 2
http://macromedia.com/software/c…
This software has the FlashPaper, which is sort of like the Macromedia version of Acrobat. Print your PDF as a Flash Paper (the same way you would print a Word doc or any other file as a PDF). Now you have a .SWF file, which is really the new Flash Paper. This file will be smaller.Hopefully, you have Adobe Acrobat. From the swf file, there's already a "Print" button. Click on it and print it as a PDF.
- sexypixel0
you just need to play around with the pdf image compression feature. why do you want to make a jpg a pdf anyway? why not just send the jpg
- Mick0
uncheck re-sampling in compression settings when you save as PDF.
alternative select "screen optimized" in the dropdown when saving as PDF.
- freshmode0
Are you sending this to be printed? If not, why is a jpeg at 300 dpi. Reduce that to 150 or even down to 100 and you will drop tons of memory. If it is to be viewed on screen only, take it down to 72dpi but up the size of the image a bit. Who cares how it prints. And the file type you import isn't really important to your final file size. You can import a lower res tiff or the same res tiff and just adjust the output settings in Illustrator. That is what cuts down the file size.
If you want to be even more creative, import the file into flash, trace bitmap with the "pixels" setting and export that file as an illustrator file. Use the vectors and you should be at around 200k.
Goodluck. You know you can create pdf's in photoshop right? If you scan into photoshop, just save as pdf from photoshop. You can probably even scan directly to pdf. My scanner does it.
peace
- unknown0
best way to control filesize + quality is IMO still Distiller ...
- unknown0
why did you scan it in the first place?
- mobius0
i scanned the reference letter to attach it together with my pdf resume.
- unknown0
oh I see sorry, thought you had scanned your resume!
- mobius0
hahha. nah. im not that dumb :B
- davetufts0
reset the coverletter.
(1) use the letterhead and signature from your scan
(2) retype all the content
(3) lay it out in your favorite pagelayout program.