How to handle large marketing documents

PDF, and various other marketing material

[Alternative Future]

Hello all,

General question regarding how you all handle your marketing material. We have several documents mainly PDF which we have to send to current and prospective clients that total in size roughly 14MB when zipped 11.5MB. Obviously some mail servers knock these back due to size, other ways of getting them to the clients is to have a link on the website where they can download them at their leisure, but this is not really an option. How else can one get these documents to the client? What do you use and do? Should we change from PDF to what?

TIA,

-George

[txbakers]

Sometimes putting them in the mail is good too.

[Alternative Future]

Hi txbakers,

Yeah we do offer a CD-ROM with the demos etc on it, but the MD sometimes insists on a more instant form of being able to get these documents to the clients.

Thanks,

-George

[limbo]

14mb is huge

How many pages? If it's just a couple of brochures (<>20pages) sounds to me like the PDF could be significanty crunched. You can do this with AcrobatPro.

If you dont have acrobat you might need to obtain the source and ask the designer to rejig the layout for web (optimise eps & tiff - removes unused objects, consolidate styling etc)

[Alternative Future]

Thank limbo,

This is the sort of information I am looking for, (not that tx's response wasnt helpful) some food for thought and suggestions to give to the designer as I also agree it seems well too big.

-George