CutePDF file sizes - [FIXED]

[Johkaz]

Hi,

I am wondering if anyone can help me please?
I am using Microsoft Word to make a copy of my webpages, and then 'printing' it off to CutePDF to make a PDF document.
But, i have just realised that some of the PDF files, are at about 3MB and over in size.
And when i upload them to my website:

http://johkaz.byethost10.com/

I go to view them it goes through the download process for the PDF, but then i get the following error message.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v358/Johkaz/error.jpg

Is there a program or a way of making the PDF's smaller?
Or a free way of making my webpages into PDF's?

Many thanks in advance.

Gary

[Reverend]

http://www.easysw.com/htmldoc/pdf-o-matic.php

http://www.expresspdf.com/

[Johkaz]

Hi,

Many thanks for the reply Reverend.
I used the express.pdf online program, and it did work for the Word document.
But it still stayed at the same size for the PDF file.
And i checked it and it is ok on my computer, i renamed the file, uploaded it, changed the link on my page to it.
But i am afraid that i got the same error message as before, after i tried to download the PDF file.
And the make a webpage into a PDF selection, only made half the page for me.

Thanks.

Gary

[Reverend]

Do you mean the pdf's located on this page (http://johkaz.byethost10.com/how.html) ?

I downloaded some of them and they opened fine with no errors.

[Johkaz]

Hi,

Yes those are the one's.
It seems as though the server i am with may have a problems with large files.
As it seems that as each one gets above 2.5MB, i get the error message.
Also, the Tony.pdf at the bottom just comes up with some kind of code on the page, and not the PDF i was looking at.

I get the error screen with the following PDF's:

Making Bases.pdf
Jeb Gigure.pdf
Laird Figure.pdf
Dusty Uniforms.pdf
Boots Tutorial.pdf
Body Changes.pdf

Many thanks.

Gary

[Johkaz]

Hi,

I have posted a question about this on the Byethost forum:

http://www.byet.net/showthread.php?t=1917

Thanks.

Gary

[Reverend]

Re-upload the files using "binary" mode (not auto or ASCII)

[Johkaz]

Hi,

Please excuse me here, but i can't seem to find a choice for uploading in 'Binary'.
The screens i have are as follows:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v358/Johkaz/byethost.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v358/Johkaz/byethost1.jpg

The main uploading screen:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v358/Johkaz/byethost2.jpg

And what i get if i click on the Advanced button:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v358/Johkaz/byethost3.jpg

This is the text from the page where i choose the file to upload:

Restrictions:
The maximum size of one file is restricted by net2ftp to 4882.8125 kB and by PHP to 5M
The maximum execution time is 2000 seconds
The FTP transfer mode (ASCII or BINARY) will be automatically determined, based on the filename extension
If the destination file already exists, it will be overwritten

[Reverend]

Select binary on your login screen

[Reverend]

http://www.net2ftp.org/forums/viewtopic.php?id=1541

[Johkaz]

Hi,

Many thanks for the replies.
I have tried re-uploading the Dusty Uniforms.pdf twice.
But i am still getting the same error message as before.

I may have to leave this until tomorrow as it is getting late here.

Many many thanks for the help.

Gary

[Reverend]

I may have to leave this until tomorrow as it is getting late here.Late? You forget I'm from England. Its only 11pm, the night is young. ;) :D

[Reverend]

Is there any reason why you specifically use PDF's.

Could you not keep them in word format and then zip them? I know that doesn't solve your issue but it might be an easier format in the long run.

[Johkaz]

Hi,

Late? You forget I'm from England. Its only 11pm, the night is young. ;) :D

Sorry about that i didn't notice until i looked properly at your avatar.:eek:
As for some reason i convinced myself, that you were in the USA.
And the 04:30am wake up for me is a bit of a shock still.

The idea i had with the PDF's when i made up my website, is that they would be easier to download. But, now that i have made a few larger pages, i didn't realise that the sizes were so big for the files. So your idea about Winzipping the Word document makes a lot of sense to me, but i have just winzipped the Dusty Uniforms PDF (2.53MB), and the zipped file size is now 2,581KB.
So if i have this right (which i doubt) there is not much difference in the file sizes.

Thanks.

Gary

[Johkaz]

Hi,

I have just made and uploaded the Winzip file to the server.
I tried it out and downloaded it to my Desktop, and i got this error message when i tried to open it.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v358/Johkaz/error1.jpg

Am i never destined to get these large files working?

Thanks.

Gary

[Reverend]

The only thing i can think is that the word docs are not converting properly to the pdf format.

[Johkaz]

Hi,

I think i may have cracked it...:eek:

As in the original Word document that i used for the PDF document (2.53MB), i had copied and pasted the pictures in from my hard drive. Then in Word i resized them, by dragging the corner of the picture down to the size i wanted. I assumed :embarass: that the size of the picture, would decrease with me making it smaller in Word.

But, i have just found out that the picture may get smaller, but the size of the file stays the same. And this explains to me, why i could not get the Word document smaller, let alone the PDF. :dunce: So as an experiment, i copied and pasted three of the pictures from the Dusty Uniforms.doc. Into my photo editing program, and saved each of them as .gif files onto my Desktop, and i then deleted the original out of the Word document. And imported the .Gif file in it's place, i did this for some of the other's and then saved the document.
This was when i almost fell of my chair... As the original document size of 2.53MB, has now dropped down to 913KB...

I made the PDF from that and then uploaded it, and it now works...

I am stunned to say the least, as i know i was told that making a website was a steep learning curve. But i think now i am a little wiser about how these things work, and the cliff face i was trying to climb. May have just given me a ledge to rest on.

Many thanks Reverend for all of your help, and getting me to think of the actual size of the pictures as the problem. Because, to me that was all that was left that could be wrong.

Gary

[Reverend]

Now that you mention the images, the other problem that could have caused the PDF's not to open could have been that the images you originally embedded were still pointing to the folder location on your hard drive. Therefore anyone trying to view the PDF would get an error because the images were still locally on your machine.

Glad you got it fixed.