[Hidden-tech] Trouble compressing a PDF using WinRAR

David Linnehan david.linnehan at gmail.com
Sat Aug 22 10:23:33 EDT 2009


The converted image (as a PDF) is already compressed to the point that  
archiving it using Winrar, or any other archiving utility, will not  
further compress the file.


On Aug 22, 2009, at 2:20 AM, Merlin Calo wrote:

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> Well it was scanned image that I converted into a PDF file..
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> --- On Wed, 8/12/09, B. Kimo Lee <bklee at azurelink.com> wrote:
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> From: B. Kimo Lee <bklee at azurelink.com>
> Subject: Re: [Hidden-tech] Trouble compressing a PDF using WinRAR
> To: "Merlin Calo" <mj_calo at yahoo.com>
> Cc: "Hidden Tech" <hidden-discuss at lists.hidden-tech.net>, "Greg  
> Caulton" <greg at stayintouch.org>
> Date: Wednesday, August 12, 2009, 12:41 PM
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> Hi Merlin,
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> I too work mostly on the Mac platform.
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> In your message did you mean that the WinRAR process wouldn't run,  
> or that the file size wasn't changing? Maybe the file's size is  
> already the smallest it can be...
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> For what it's worth, you must have some placed bitmaps in your  
> illustrator file because if it was just vector graphics it wouldn't  
> really need compressing, or rather, the file wouldn't have much data  
> to compress -- since unlike raster graphics (bitmap) the amount of  
> information required by the program to render the image is the bare  
> minimum so the file sizes stay much smaller.
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> Still, I suppose the WinRAR process ought to execute, even if the  
> file size may not change much.
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> Hope this helped...
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> On Aug 12, 2009, at 9:53 AM, Merlin Calo wrote:
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>> Hell all:
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>> I am having some trouble compressing a PDF file using WinRAR..
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>> For some reason I can not compress the file, I have gone over a few  
>> tutorials and I know that I am taking the right steps. It is a pdf  
>> file I created in Adobe Illustrator CS4 I have no idea why the file  
>> size remains the same..
>>
>> Any help on this topic or if you can point me in the right  
>> direction to look for answer would be appreciated!
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>> Merlin Calo
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