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I'm sure this will be easy for someone... what the heck? I do have the lower gable roof paralleled and snapped to the upper gable's wall surface. (Offending lumber visible just above black shutter in the middle) x6 Hogston porch gable 0902160813.plan

Well Lew and I must be similar thinkers (should I be concerned?) because last night I actually did try a screen capture of the pdf, turned that into a jpg file, and imported. Printed that test page today, and YES it is pretty fuzzy. Definitely cut down on the file size, though!

Yes - the McAfee, and whatever else is causing them to request I update Adobe nearly EVERY DAY?? Maybe that nonsense stops when you shell out the money to buy the premium version, which it sounds like i may need to do. Thanks all for your help ... it sounds like I'm not doing anything unusual or wrong when importing .pdf pages, which ends up creating these huge file sizes. Just wondered if there was a C.A. option box I need to check or uncheck when importing or printing to .pdf that would reduce the file size. Guess not!

David - I'm not using any Adobe if I can help it! The engineer firm creates the .pdf on their end, and I'm simply importing it. (I do have acrobat but avoid its daily updates and don't want to buy their products because of the junk they add to my computer.). When I print the layout (make a PDF), I'm using the "save as PDF" option. Shane - what is the name of your PDF shrinker? Drawzilla - thanks! Didn't realize you could import just a page at a time in CA. I will contact the city and see if there's a way to submit plans without the upload step. Dropbox works for everyone else...

Dropbox works well for submitting to the printer, but when uploading to the city's website it snags. Just wondering if there's a trick to reducing the file size at some point before trying to upload to the city?

I would be very grateful to know how others handle this: I create most of the pages of a drawing set for permitting but have an engineering group create pages where a stamp is needed. They furnish these pages as .PDF files. I have been able to separate their pages using Google Chrome so that I can insert their pages where they go (I crop them so I can import them onto my sheet and provide page title and numbering). To submit to the city for permitting, the set must be all one single .PDF file, so I can't simply divide their pages out from mine as two separate submitted files. PROBLEM: when I merge their PDF files into my set, the file size becomes HUGE -- so large that Google won't e-mail without multiple issues. Is there a trick I need to know when importing these .PDF bits into my layout file? Help? (x6 user)

Thanks for the advice -- sorry about the post title... should have said x6. I use the program pretty heavily and do render for 3Ds for clients, so it sounds like two computers will bite the dust, and mama gets a brand new one. It's only money... sigh.

thanks for that, Lew. Yes - I'm using old 10, but want to upgrade to the latest Premier (isn't it x6?)

I am using Chief 10 still, on an ancient XP machine (it still works!). But - time to upgrade. My somewhat agey Vista (SP2) machine meets all the posted system requirements and then some, except that the processor is 2.33 (intel duo), not 2.4 as the site suggests. What think you, geekSquad types? Do I need to also get a new computer?? HATE to. This one works fine for everything else I do, including PhotoShop. THANKS for all advice.