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i made 28 newsletter pages in illustrator , each page is too heavy mean in size more then 200 mb
i place all image in jpg format
how can i decrease the page size or which format is good?
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Ideally you shouldn't be using Illustrator for layout, use InDesign. Maintaining 28 Illustrator to would be a real pain, as you already know. If you are stuck using it, what would probably alleviate your problem is linking to your graphics as opposed to embedding them. When you import a graphic it will give you a little checkbox in the bottom left that says link. Make sure that is checked.
As for formats, TIF and EPS are typically your print formats. JPGs can be used, but make sure they are CMYK JPGs.
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Generally Illustrator is not a good program for creating multiple-page documents, especially 28 pages. This is something that should be designed in InDesign. (I would imagine navigating the file is a lot of work if you have jumps.) This is part of why these files are so large... Illustrator is bloating them (are their extra color swatches? Are the images reduced in scale in Illustrator instead of reducing them to the correct size and resolution before they are placed in Illustrator.And most important are you embedding or linking the files. Embedding will make your files HUGE!)
As far as which image is best, you will need to ask your printer which format they require (some won't take JPG, others will). Really, you should have talked to them before setting up the file to see what formats they require (do they really want 28 individual pages?).
Hope that helps a little.
if i can just chirp in here, never go with a pdf. lol. they've upset me in the past. i would suggest a tif file but they can sometimes be overly huge in file size.
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Ever or just in this instance?
PDF is how I submit our magazine to the printer every month and how I request all ads. Granted, advertisers can mess the PDF up pretty good, but only a handful of them and they're usually the same people who don't read the specs and submit all kinds of wacky problems.
I recommend PDF 100 percent.
Especially for multipage documents, PDF is the way to go. That said, why not ask your printer what their preferred format is? It's too late now but this should have been considered at the begining of the project.
I won't even work with clients who can't access a PDF - that's how I send proofs. And I won't work with a printer who can't output PDF files properly - because that's the only file format they're going to get from me.
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maybe i'm missing something here. the last few times i've printed from a pdf, the colour always ends up slightly wrong. the guys at the print shop then say to me don't use pdf, bring tif's instead.
is there something that i'm not doing that's making the pdf's output the wrong/slightly darker colours at times? i'd appreciate any info on this. thanks.
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Could they it be their workflow? I guess some printers will take the PDF, place it into Quark and then output/RIP from the Quark file. I haven't experienced this, but I have read on the Adobe forums this workflow can mess up the file (I would imagine color is one of those things that is altered).
My own experience has been that printers who don't want final materials as a PDF don't have a good or compitent workflow set up for PDF. You know, the "we fear what we don't understand" take on things.
Just a thought.
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Are you using color management in your pdf? If not, make sure the export settings in InDesign or the Distiller settings are set to "Leave color unchanged" in the color management section. Otherwise, make sure your color profile settings are correct. If you're not really sure with the CMS stuff, turn it all off and let your printer use their profiles.
Hope this helps...
thumbs up for PDF.
also you could go with tiff-s, 300dpi, cmyk.
if you have a size issue, dont compress the tiffs using lzw.
lzw is not so powerful or at least it does not compare to something like Rar for example. so, save the tiffs as uncompressed. then just use a maximum compression with winrar.
Rar is available for multiple platforms here http://www.rarlab.com/download.htm
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... to either use TIFF's or PDF's as this is easiest.
I dont understand why you would make 28 seperate Illustrator pages but seeing as you have, you can place them all into a single InDesign file and create a PDF from this. Plain and simple really.
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