tinkering with PDF

I made my first PDF presentation/proposal thing yesterday! :) that was a ton of fun. i spent the day playing around with it trying to find how to optimize the file so that the size isn’t so big

i am trying to get the smallest size possible, but i can’t further compress it without sacrificing the quality of the image :( i can’t be sure if i’m just not using the right programs or what, but here’s what i did:

1. create an individual PSD file for each page
2. using Photoshop 7.0, save the PSD files as PDF with layers and font embdedded. i get this huuuge file about the same size as my PSDs (the biggest is about 11MB)
3. thread the PDF files together by inserting each pages manually to form one huge PDF file
4. use the Adobe PDF virtual printer (i think this comes with adobe acrobat 6.0 pro) to “print” it to file, with these settings: 72pdi resolution, compress images to 100 ppi and embed fonts again

right now it’s at around 6 pages and 1.8MB. still a bit too big i think, but it’s the smallest i could get.

the fonts used are Edwardian Script (i swear this used to be free) and Myriad (comes with photoshop?). i think it looks much better as a pdf than the screenshot above, but i can’t show you guys the pdf here. wish i could though!