Please Help! Deadline's Today...soon!
Hello,
I'm submitting a score today, and the file upload limit is 10KB PDF, but I can't get my file smaller than 18KB.
It's actually 6 PDFs merged into one (title, instrumentation, staging then 3 movements)
Have been trying for hours now, tried online compression tools, etc.
Anyone know how to compress a 24KB PDF file to 10KB or less? Can't upload here since the limit is 2KB
Thanks!
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What are you trying to submit to? It seems crazy they were would be a 10KB limit for anything where they are expecting a multiple movement work complete with stage directions wtc. Are you sure the limit isn't 10 *MB*?
In reply to What are you trying to submit by Marc Sabatella
Sorry, you're right...it is 10*MB*. Can't type in a panic...
But still, the smallest I can get it so far is 18MB. Am trying multiple compression sites now, but still no luck.
Ya'll know what to do!? About 90 mins to deadline!
Thanks, MuseScore!!
In reply to Sorry, you're right...it is by RogerRabbit95
And thanks again, Mr. Sabatella!
In reply to Sorry, you're right...it is by RogerRabbit95
You say it's 6 different PDF's - which is the biggest? Graphics tend to take more space than anything else, so if you have images in your score, try eliminating them. Also, in Edit / Preferences / Export / PDF, try reducing the resolution. No idea how much different that makes, but it's worth a shot.
In reply to You say it's 6 different by Marc Sabatella
Reduced resolution to 200 and that only reduced the 2nd Movement from 10.5MB to 10.2MB.
There aren't any images, or anything else in the score, just the music...
What do other composers do? I can't be the only one with this problem. I imagine if they have an upload size of 10MB that other composers must be able to reduce their file size. But how?
Thanks.
In reply to Reduced resolution to 200 and by RogerRabbit95
Depends - again, who is the "they" that are imposing a 10 MB limit on submissions? Is this some sort of competition? Are they really expecting three movement works with stage plots?
In reply to Depends - again, who is the by Marc Sabatella
It is/was for this Call for Scores:
http://www.americancomposers.org/2015/06/01/earshot-columbus-submission…
I submitted one file that was under the 10MB limit just to submit before the deadline, and emailed them with a link to the complete (compressed from 26MB to 19.8MB) score to download.
Have to say, MuseScore made a great-looking score, and I'm impressed.
Here's a link if you'd like to see the results of your work in action:
https://files.acrobat.com/a/preview/4c857328-9cf0-4ee3-9191-28de51b11818
Thanks again, and cross your fingers, please.
In reply to It is/was for this Call for by RogerRabbit95
Good luck!
I'm not sure how you created the PDF or what OS you are on. On my Linux system, I have scores about the same size as your for which the PDF I get from File / Export are well under 1 MB in size - usually just a few undred KB. So maybe it's something about how the PDF was generated that made it larger on your system?
You could try uploading the score to msuescore.com and seeing how big the PDF that comes from there is. Or post a link here and see what sizes people get if they export to PDF on their own systems.
In reply to Good luck! I'm not sure how by Marc Sabatella
On Mac OSX the fonts are not embedded. https://musescore.org/en/node/64871
Could be why the PDF is so big.