Split PDF produces big filesizes

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I use the extractpages() function to split a pdf file to seperate pdf files per page. The orgininal pdf file have a filesize of 5MB and contents 240 pages. While I split this pages to separate pdf files, every page on a separate pdf-file has then a filesize > 3MB. How can I reduce the filesize?
I have use the compress-functions, but there is no effect. Many pages have only text-content and there are a hand-full images inside on the hole file. What is the reason, why the splitted files are so big? Thats not really a good effect - I think...

Hope somebody can help me!

Regards
kalypso1977

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kalypso1977 Members Profile Find Members Posts Beginner Joined: 06 Jun 10 Status: Offline Points: 5	Post Options Post Reply Quote kalypso1977 Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Topic: Split PDF produces big filesizes Posted: 13 Jun 10 at 4:52PM
	Hello! I use the extractpages() function to split a pdf file to seperate pdf files per page. The orgininal pdf file have a filesize of 5MB and contents 240 pages. While I split this pages to separate pdf files, every page on a separate pdf-file has then a filesize > 3MB. How can I reduce the filesize? I have use the compress-functions, but there is no effect. Many pages have only text-content and there are a hand-full images inside on the hole file. What is the reason, why the splitted files are so big? Thats not really a good effect - I think... Hope somebody can help me! Regards kalypso1977

Ingo Members Profile Find Members Posts Moderator Group Joined: 29 Oct 05 Status: Offline Points: 3529	Post Options Post Reply Quote Ingo Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 14 Jun 10 at 6:24AM
	Hi Kalypso! All things being one time in the 5 mb document now have to be on each page 'cause each page is a new document. Fonts, images, watermarks, ... This can be a reason. Cheers Ingo

kalypso1977 Members Profile Find Members Posts Beginner Joined: 06 Jun 10 Status: Offline Points: 5	Post Options Post Reply Quote kalypso1977 Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 14 Jun 10 at 7:35AM
	Hello! Thats can be a reason, but is not really that what I inspected. Is there a way to reduce the 5MB sizes by the separeted pages? Many thanks for your help here... Regards, kalypso

Ingo Members Profile Find Members Posts Moderator Group Joined: 29 Oct 05 Status: Offline Points: 3529	Post Options Post Reply Quote Ingo Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 14 Jun 10 at 8:01AM
	Hi Kalypso! If there is one image-resource shown on each page after separation there will be 240 images (one on each page... i would expect this ;-) The other thing: If there are images very often it will be jpeg-images and these images are already compressed. If you have special fonts which are embedded you can try to change them to standard fonts and remove the embedded ones. Please check the online reference. Cheers, Ingo Edited by Ingo - 14 Jun 10 at 8:01AM

jennyChrist81 Members Profile Find Members Posts Beginner Joined: 04 Aug 10 Status: Offline Points: 1	Post Options Post Reply Quote jennyChrist81 Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 04 Aug 10 at 6:54PM
	Hi, To deal with large PDF files is to split the PDF files into small number of files, i.e select the page from the large PDF file and split the selected page into new PDF file.To split the large PDF files you should go for a third party tool like PDF split tool. Among the n number of tools i can suggest you to use SysInfoTools PDF Split tool. It works for large PDF files and split the PDF files into small PDF files by giving page range as the input to the tool and output will be the PDF file containing the selected page range. It is the best PDF tool which i choose from the bundle of the PDF split tools.I use this tool oftenly and my friends and colleagues also use this tool in there daily routine.They are very please from this tool.

Ingo Members Profile Find Members Posts Moderator Group Joined: 29 Oct 05 Status: Offline Points: 3529	Post Options Post Reply Quote Ingo Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 04 Aug 10 at 7:56PM
	Hi All! "Jennys" post seems to be spam ... but i'm not really sure ;-) What "Jennys" tool can do you can do with QuickPDF, too. "She" doesn't tell anything about the new filesizes ;-) Perhaps we'll remove this post soon ;-) Cheers, Ingo

Wheeley Members Profile Find Members Posts Senior Member Joined: 30 Oct 05 Location: United States Status: Offline Points: 146	Post Options Post Reply Quote Wheeley Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 05 Aug 10 at 12:39AM
	The original file may be using < ="-" ="text/; =utf-8">< name="ProgId" ="Word.">< name="Generator" ="Microsoft Word 12">< name="Originator" ="Microsoft Word 12"> object streams and cross reference streams. This allows for greater compression than what QuickPDF can do. They supposedly are working on support for these features. Wheeley