From drechsel at verkehrsplanung.com Mon Apr 3 10:27:22 2006 From: drechsel at verkehrsplanung.com (Wolf Drechsel) Date: Tue Apr 4 08:55:00 2006 Subject: [mac-gs] create small pdfs Message-ID: Hello friends, I'm an newbie to this list and would appreciate some advice on a topic probabely discussed here over and over again - but googeling didnt solve my problem up to now. I'm using Mac OS 10.39 - and have to create pdfs for download on the web quite often. I dont have a distiller - and the built-in-PDF-creator (accessible via the printig dialog) seems to make quite big files (a 67-pages-doc with around 10 small black-and-white-graphics came out with 2,1 MB). I suspect, the big size partially comes from fonts which have been embedded several times. Therefore I wanted to use ghostscript's ps2pdf. So I created a PS-file with my LaserWriter-driver - called ps2pdf with the "/screen"-option - and ended up with a file double the size of the first pdf (created by the built-in-dialog). Can anybody give me a few hints how to make proper pdfs using ghostscript on a Mac? - Also some ideas to make the printing dialog more configurable (several printer queues?) would be highly appreciated. Thanks and greetings, Wolf -- +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ + Wolf Drechsel + K?hnstr. 54 + D-90478 N?rnberg + Tel.: 0911/4 71 98 49 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++