File Size | Compression

All the way through this project I've had problems with Illustrator lagging due to the huge file I have created. At its peak it was 160.9mb, which is far too big to enter into the competition, or to work with in this project. So I've been compressing it using Photoshop CS5 and Adobe Illustrator in order to get it down to the 5mb standard ready for competition entry.

In photoshop I rasterized the whole image so it became a flat pixel based image that I chose to export as a .PNG. This lost a lot of data; 151.1mb to be exact. It was then only 4.8mb, but I still had to put it back into the template created by Penguin in order to keep the vital trim marks around the edge. Once I'd imported it into the template and then exported it as a .PDF as specified by the brief it was once again far too big for entry into the competition at 11mb.

These compression issues will hopefully be resolved very soon ready to hand the work in and to enter it into the Penguin Book competition.