matt52 - 2:59 pm on Sep 21, 2006 (gmt 0)

Hi everyone - thanks for all your advice!

It looks like I will need to update my Acrobat to get the built in compression (I've got Acrobat 5).

I'm starting to realise that the issue is with the pdf opening up in the browser, rather than users being able to just download it. I guess if I zipped it so it was "worksheets.zip" rather than "worksheets.pdf" that problem would be solved and more downloads would be successful because it would simply start downloading... Is that the case? The problem with that, though, is the inevitable batch of "I can't open the ZIP file..." emails coming in, which isn't ideal!

Or ask users to "right-click, save", but most people when they see a link, click it.

The files are already chunks of a larger file, so I don't want to split them much further, otherwise users will be downloading the book page by page - I guess that is an option too, but time-consuming for the users.

Many thanks to all again for the inspiration!