I purchased material from someone online who provided a link to download.I download the pdf and saved to hard drive and saw the file was 82,000kb (1 of 3 files). The issue is I need to get the document on to my work cpu so I can print the 300+ page document at work. The document is scanned so it created a huge file. So I cant email the file bc of its size, i tried zipping file and it only reduced to 80,000kb or so, too big for flashdrive/cd, and i tried using adobe sendnow software that compresses and sent to work email, but cant open at work. Also forgot to add I cant access the original link for download bc it is blocked at work, corporate blocking bs. Last resort would be to bring laptop to kinkos and printing there which i am trying to avoid. Any suggestions?

6/22/2011 2:19:59 PM

use pdfsam and blast it into smaller chunks to email

or put it on your flash drive and plug your flash drive directly into the copier at work without putting it into your work computer. At least the newer ones offer direct print.

6/22/2011 2:26:32 PM

It's not too big for a flash drive or CD. It's only 82MB. you could put 8 copies on a CD-R and hundreds of copies on a flash drive that would cost you less than $10.

You can also make use of Dropbox, Mosy, SkyDrive, etc...

6/22/2011 2:26:39 PM

so you have 3 files, each about 82 megabytes, and you dont have a flash drive big enough to put them on? also you should be able to burn to a regular CD-ROM

unless you meant the files are 820 megabytes, which would be 820,000KB

6/22/2011 2:27:08 PM

Quote :

"unless you meant the files are 820 megabytes, which would be 820,000KB"

in which case you could burn to a dvd-r

[Edited on June 22, 2011 at 2:28 PM. Reason : ~]

6/22/2011 2:28:32 PM

1) install dropbox
2) put pdf in "Public" folder
3) "copy public link" in dropbox
4) email that to yourself
5) click link from work computer
6) profit

edit: or just install dropbox on both computers, and let the file sync itself.

[Edited on June 22, 2011 at 2:34 PM. Reason : .]

6/22/2011 2:31:59 PM

Cant access dropbox at work

I get the bytes confused....it came out to an 80GB doc. Its a 324 page document that was scanned in color

Also tried to extract pages from doc to put into smaller files but I have the edition that doesnt have that


[Edited on June 22, 2011 at 2:38 PM. Reason : .]

6/22/2011 2:37:17 PM

^that's ~250MB per page. what clueless person was scanning this?

You need to recompress it. Most network printers would get PISSED if you tried to send a file that big.

However, it's almost worth it to just take it to kinkos on a portable hard drive to watch them flounder.

If it's not personal info or some trade secret can you post a link? I may be able to help out.

6/22/2011 2:44:01 PM

I dont know but its pissing me off. Its a study guide for CAIA exam. I paid a guy through paypal and he sent me a fileserve.com link to download.

And I dont have an external hard drive to take. Office depot has externals they can hook up for transfer and then print for $0.07 per page but dont want to do that.

I may email the guy back and see what he says. Surely this has been an issue for someone else. Unless there is a better way to download it? Or save it as a different type of file?

^ thanks might hit you up later

6/22/2011 3:00:07 PM

Open the PDF.

Get a free pdf printer and "Print to PDF"

Set the output resolution to 72dpi or 96dpi.

That should take it from 80gb to a few hundred megabytes (enough that you can put it on a thumbdrive).

6/22/2011 3:23:52 PM

80 gigs? holy fuck

6/22/2011 3:31:47 PM

Assuming 8.5"x11" sheets and 24bit pixels, that still has to be more than 600 DPI.

6/22/2011 5:02:02 PM

^It could have been scanned as 16bit or as CYMK. Looks like at 600dpi, 8bit rgb, 8.5x11" you'd end up with a 31gb file. 16bit rgb would result in a 62gb file, and 16bit CYMK would yield an 83gb file.

6/22/2011 5:15:17 PM

I'm surprised that fileserve even allowed such huge files; that's bigger than the biggest Linux distribution I know about.

6/22/2011 6:59:03 PM

Or, more likely, he just meant megabytes.

6/22/2011 7:10:59 PM

so how long did it take you to download this file? because my money is on megabyte as well. 82gb would take a long damn time to download.

6/22/2011 7:59:26 PM

^^,^

6/23/2011 8:48:30 AM

It took a while to download (30min?). I emailed the guy back and he sent another file that was much smaller and took a few seconds to download. Not sure what he did the first time, but was able to get on flash drive this go round. Thanks for all the suggestions though.

6/23/2011 8:54:13 AM

80GB in 30 minutes... I NEED your network connection. Heck, I need your hard drive - I think it would take longer than that to just copy an 80 gig file from one of my drives to another.

[Edited on June 23, 2011 at 10:49 AM. Reason : -]

6/23/2011 10:44:36 AM

^ 46.1 MB/sec

6/23/2011 11:20:24 AM

geez; I can get 46MB/sec across twin gigabit links into a 6 drive "enterprise class" storage, but nothing at my house can hang with that.

6/23/2011 12:21:00 PM