What's amazing to me is that people don't pay attention to file sizes.
I've had a lady give me a 32 MB PDF file for a single page monthly event calendar that is mostly black text on a calendar line frame and just a bit of color silhouette images. She said she used an old Print Shop to compose it. I told her that for the actual content, it was way too big in size and when uploaded to a website would paint slowly in a browser. Maybe we can print and the scan it she said. And "How many bytes will it take to encode the paper grain?", I asked.
I "exported" the file to a PNG image and then "printed" that to a PDF file. It was less than 2% of the original size.
I've had a lady give me a 32 MB PDF file for a single page monthly event calendar that is mostly black text on a calendar line frame and just a bit of color silhouette images. She said she used an old Print Shop to compose it. I told her that for the actual content, it was way too big in size and when uploaded to a website would paint slowly in a browser. Maybe we can print and the scan it she said. And "How many bytes will it take to encode the paper grain?", I asked.
I "exported" the file to a PNG image and then "printed" that to a PDF file. It was less than 2% of the original size.