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You're right, the document you described doesn't seem like one that would be 5MB in size. My suggestion would be to make a copy to experiment on and try taking one element out of the document at a time until you find out what part of the document is running up the memory requirement.

Jerry

Ian

If you like click on my blue name and email me the Pages document and the pdf and I'll see what you can do and what the problem is.

Peter

If you got that vector from Illustrator, Indesign or Quark Xpress, a common mistake is to leave hidden, masked or covered objects in the file.

I got a fairly simple pdf from a NY library which was way bigger than it should have been. When I examined it, I found they had masked out a tiny portion of a large graphic and then duplicated everything on top of itself!

You'd think they'd take one look at the result and guess something weird was going on.

Peter

All,

I came across these instructions:

Reduce File Size makes PDF unreadable

at http://macmanus.nl/2014/06/23/fixed-reduce-file-size-makes-pdf-unreadable/#comme nt-11149

it is the best way to make your own filters, and it worked perfectly for me the first attempt

The article below contains a method to customise Preview filter that compresses PDF files (the original one makes the PDF very blurry):

http://www.macworld.com/article/1168311/software/shrink-preview-files-without-ru ining-image-quality.html

I created a new filter, but it doesn't show in the export options in Preview. It does show in Colorsync itself.