automated rasterizing of PDF vector images

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tomyhowe
Oct 17, 2003
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Anybody know of a program/plugin that will go through a PDF and automatically rasterize the vector art in it, without messing with the text?

thanks!
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hot_denim
Oct 18, 2003
Do you know whay you want to rasterise the vectors in a PDF ?.
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tomyhowe
Oct 21, 2003
Thanks for the reply hot_denim…you bet we do! We want to optimize them for the web, and some of the vector art in print-ready PDFs is huge.
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Gernot_Hoffmann
Oct 21, 2003
Tomy,

do you want to compress Press PDFs to Web PDFs ?

You may have a look at Quite a Box of Tricks by
<http://www.quite.com>

This is the state of the art for shrinking PDFs, if the generating source program is not available.

But sorry – vector graphics are already stored by minimal file size. Only raster images can be compressed further.

Best regards –Gernot Hoffmann
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hot_denim
Oct 22, 2003
Vector reprentation of images are usually better as they can be zoomed in without pixlisation. And take up less space… (most times).

Are you sure yours would benefit from rasterisation

Post a link to a prime example of a PDF that you think would benefit from rasteristaion.. and ill tell you if it will/won’t (most probably).

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