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[GENE GILES]

Afternoon All -

 

Any great way to downsize PDF's we are doing a 358 unit apartment complex and the file is huge.

 

[Don Gibbons]

Plan Sets will allow you to Export to a PDF and set the dpi which affects the file size. It defaults to 600dpi and I change it to 300dpi. This setting usually keeps my PDF's under 10Mb. You can drop it to 150dpi but I think the quality suffers at that point. If you're not using Plan Sets and are printing to a PDF printer, that setting falls to the driver you have installed IF it's available. I checked the Microsoft Print to PDF and it was not available.

[David Zawadzki]

Here, we are required to submit plans online as individual sheets and those individual pdf’s may be bundled into a single zip file.

Would that work for you?

[GENE GILES]

We use plansets and have reduced the DPI to 300 and our systems are just hanging.

[Don Gibbons]

Do you have any images in the plans? I have an image of my logo and there's a significant difference when I create the PDF with the border and without the border.

[Mark Petri]

I find multi-format notes are the biggest contributor. Any imports of DWGs with lots of line segments or other drawings that are real busy also contribute.