Earl_Zubkoff@adobeforums.com
06-13-2005, 01:58 PM
The CS2 PDF options, for both single-image files and presentations, are more complex yet less practical than CS's version.
First, do we need to choose among five prepress "standards," four "compatibilities," and about 20 other options? Did any Photoshop user actually request these capabilities? I think the people who do need them are creating their PDF's in Acrobat or page layout apps, not image-editing or painting programs.
Second and worse, the 12 numbered JPEG compression levels -- which afforded fine control over quality and file size -- have been replaced with five named levels. And those levels are very unevenly spaced in their resulting file sizes. (The difference between the "high" level and "medium high" can be nearly ten times the file size.)
I make PDF's frequently, to send proofs to clients or to show selected portfolio images (with both multi-page documents and slide shows)or to deliver easily-browsed indexes with jobs. I have lost significant functionality with the new, cruder compression control.
First, do we need to choose among five prepress "standards," four "compatibilities," and about 20 other options? Did any Photoshop user actually request these capabilities? I think the people who do need them are creating their PDF's in Acrobat or page layout apps, not image-editing or painting programs.
Second and worse, the 12 numbered JPEG compression levels -- which afforded fine control over quality and file size -- have been replaced with five named levels. And those levels are very unevenly spaced in their resulting file sizes. (The difference between the "high" level and "medium high" can be nearly ten times the file size.)
I make PDF's frequently, to send proofs to clients or to show selected portfolio images (with both multi-page documents and slide shows)or to deliver easily-browsed indexes with jobs. I have lost significant functionality with the new, cruder compression control.