I am colaborating on a report that contains photos, which I want to exchange with my colleague via email. It's too big as is, but if I choose the Reduce File Size option, Pages over reduces and the photos become blurry and pixelated. If there a way to find a happy medium within Pages, and not be exporting to a pdf? Thanks in advance for any help.
Best is to reduce the photos before they are added to Pages. For printing they do not have to be more than 300 dpi. For viewing on the screen about 75 - 100 dpi. Pages doesn't do the job as you found out. You can do it in Preview > tools > Adjust size
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Adjust the picture files to fit your needs before inserting them in a Pages document.
My own scheme is :
build a draft document in which I insert the original pictures (tiff or png)
When the document's layout is OK, grab the dimensions of resized pictures.
Use a tool dedicated to pictures edition (they are numerous even if you want a free one).
to crop the pictures.
Re sample the cropped pictures with a rez between 80 dpi and 300 dpi according to your needs.
Then and only then, save as Jpeg to reduce the files sizes.
Remove the pictures embedded in you doc and insert the edited ones.
It may be useful to re-start from scratch and copy paste the text components if you applied masks to crop the pictures during the first step.
Yvan KOENIG (VALLAURIS, France) mardi 4 octobre 2011 15:38:27
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Happily, Apple is not M…oSoft so I'm quite sure that they will not insert in Pages this kind of picture editing tools.
Yvan KOENIG (VALLAURIS, France) jeudi 6 octobre 2011 11:25:44
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I agree with you both in terms of not needing bloat-ware. At the same time, the reduce file size function is almost useless for anything other than creating a bad-looking document. It seems to me Apple can do better with this, or just drop the feature and let people export to PDF.
The reduce file size function does what it is designed to achieve : it crops the picture according to the resolution used to display on screen (72 dpi)
If you want to create a screen only document it's a good tool.
If you want to print you must use the scheme which I described.
I don't understand the end of you message because we are already able to export iWork documents as PDFs.
Yvan KOENIG (VALLAURIS, France) jeudi 6 octobre 2011 13:32:08
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Yes, it looks good on my screen, which is great.
Sorry for the confusion about exporting to PDF. What I was trying to say was, if the feature (reduce file size) isn't good, then just drop it and let people just use the export to PDF option that is already there.
I agree that it is good for viewing on a screen.
Thanks for taking the time to clarify that I need to do this in another app and that it can't be done in Pages. Appreciate your advice.
Thanks for pointing me to the feature in Preview. I wish Apple would put the same kind of option INSIDE Pages. Perhaps, I will send a feature request to Apple.
I myself prefer using different applications for different uses, instead of having one doing all.
I partly agree to this. The reducing is to much if you want to print the document. It is fine on the screen though.
I am glad that you gor a satisfying result.
How do I reduce photo file size in Pages?
