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but how small are the resultant files?
Authored by: chidimaar on Tue, Aug 28 2007 at 5:00PM PDT

This sounds promising, as I have to convert a bunch of keynote presentations to pdfs for students to download after my lectures (kids these days - want everything handed to them!). Keynote's (Apple's) built in export to PDF / print to PDF options both lead to rather large files that are tough on dialup lines. So my question is - does this make the pdf files smaller than Apple's version? I guess I'll get around to testing this one of these days but if anyone knows the answer, I'd appreciate hearing about it.

but how small are the resultant files?
Authored by: ploesslkh on Tue, Aug 28 2007 at 5:47PM PDT

I printed the macosxhints webpage. With save as "pdf" it's 352 kb, with the CUPS-PDF 2.8 MB

but how small are the resultant files?
Authored by: rainwadj on Tue, Sep 4 2007 at 9:39AM PDT

Similar results here. On a 2-page document (with graphics) in Pages:

CUPS-PDF: 6 MB
Print-to-PDF: 184 KB