Re-sizing in flexi sign cloud?

[149motorsports]

I sent a fill of gradients and fills to get printed to a guy. I saved the file as a pdf. He got the file and some of the colors changed and the gradients were not there. I file was pretty large. So somewhere between me sending the file and him opening it, something happened.

My question is, he told me save it as 25% scale. I am new to the printing side and how to shrink files down so they are small enough to email.

How would I got about scaling the files, any steps would be appreciated!
Thanks

 

[Snydo]

Select your image then in the 'design central' interface, type "25%" for either dimension and hit enter...make sure 'proportional' is checked.

 

[149motorsports]

Thanks...

I went to arrange, re size, selected image and it says 100%. I typed in 25%, the proportional is check (apply scale to all) is not checked. I typed in 25% and clicked the green check mark.

Did i do this right?



Now when i am emailing the file to my printing guy, what should i tell him to do... just scale the image to 100% and that's all?

Thanks for all your help.!

 

[Snydo]

Design Central in the center of the screen. Sounds like what you did may work, and yah I would hope if he requested it at 25% that he would re-scale it before printing. I'm assuming you guys already discussed the final size.

Also, check out www.wetransfer.com you just upload your file(s) type in the e-mail of the recipient, super easy and free up to 2GB. No more worrying about file size in e-mails.

 

[149motorsports]

Yes that's what I used. I shrunk it down to 25% and it takes up a ton more space now and time to download to transfer. I have to be doing something wrong?

 

[BIG EASY DOES IT]

If you shrink a vector image in size you are not changing the file size. All the nodes and lines are still there no matter what size you make it. That's why we love vector because you can scale to whatever and it doesn't change the resolution of the image. So even though it looks smaller you are still saving all the same data. You would need to flatten the transparency and rasterize everything. Then change the size but don't change the resolution. But just making a vector physically smaller does not change the file size