Powerpoint printing through Adobe Acrobat Distiller 5.0

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Abhishake - 20 May 2006 05:26 GMT

Dear All,

In our Project we using acrobat distiller to make pdf of Microsoft
Powerpoint file. My powerpoint Slides have 37 number of pages and all have
graphics and pictures used.the total time it take to make the PDF is aroung
120 Second which is the biggest drawback of our project. Please any body can
help me to reduce this time consumed in the printing

-Abhishake

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Michael Koerner - 20 May 2006 13:00 GMT

Unfortunately not, unless you do it on a more powerful computer

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Steve Rindsberg - 20 May 2006 19:05 GMT

> Dear All,
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> 120 Second which is the biggest drawback of our project. Please any body can
> help me to reduce this time consumed in the printing

As Michael says: a faster computer always helps. ;-)

To speed things further, look at three areas:

-What's in the PPT
-What's going into the Postscript file that the Adobe PDF driver produces.
-Distiller settings.

Overly large graphics and any sort of transparency in PPT will make huge PS
files. The larger the files, the longer it will take Distiller to process
them.

Other types of graphics can result in very complex Postscript, which will also
slow down Distiller. For example, vector graphics with lots of complex curves
will process rather quickly but if the same graphics are converted to WMFs
(zillions of straightline sections, no curves) the processing time can
skyrocket.

Try processing individual slides. Find out which ones take longest to distill.
Focus on those.

Distiller settings ... are fonts being embedded, does Distiller have to
downsample lots of large images to small sizes ... look at the available
settings, experiment to find out which ones you can change for an improvement.

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