Illustrator to PDF conversion problem....

Hi,

I checked some previous threads on this issue which have been similar to the problem i'm having.....although my one is a bit more specific if anyone can help me out....!!

I received a PDF of an "Advert Design" that was created in Illustrator (don't know which version)....and i was asked to re-arrange some existing text...

When i opened this PDF (380kb) in Illustrator there was only one single layer....i re-arranged the text using several layers and that's it....!!

When i tried to save this as a new copy of the PDF, the file size had increased from (380kb to over 2MB)....

When i removed options for "preserving illustrator editing capibilities" and "embedding page thumbnails" etc etc....the file size reduced to just over 1MB" which is still way too large....

Does anyone know how this file size could have increased so significantly in the first place and how i may be able to get it back to somewhere around the original 380kb size....

Please note, i do not have any other software for generating PDF files besides for "Illustrator CS" and "Photoshop 7".....

I'd really appreciate any help, thanks....!!

On Sun, 03 Dec 2006 08:25:29 GMT, flipper66 <none.TakeThisOut@000.com> wrote:

>Hi,
>
>I checked some previous threads on this issue which have been similar
>to the problem i’m having.....although my one is a bit more specific
>if anyone can help me out....!!
>
>I received a PDF of an "Advert Design" that was created in
>Illustrator (don’t know which version)....and i was asked to
>re-arrange some existing text...
>
>When i opened this PDF (380kb) in Illustrator there was only one
>single layer....i re-arranged the text using several layers and that’s
>it....!!
>
>When i tried to save this as a new copy of the PDF, the file size had
>increased from (380kb to over 2MB)....
>
>When i removed options for "preserving illustrator editing
>capibilities" and "embedding page thumbnails" etc etc....the file
>size reduced to just over 1MB" which is still way too large....
>
>Does anyone know how this file size could have increased so
>significantly in the first place and how i may be able to get it back
>to somewhere around the original 380kb size....
>
>Please note, i do not have any other software for generating PDF files
>besides for "Illustrator CS" and "Photoshop 7".....
>
>I’d really appreciate any help, thanks....!!

You might try this.

If yoy have Acrobat v7 installed, open the PDF with it, then edit the
text by selecting Advanced Editing Tool bar > Touch Up Object Tool.

This should open a .tmp file in Illustrator, which is a temporary
working copy of your file.

make your edits then close file. You should see a prompt, allow it to
save edits.

Does this help your file size??

jbl