Wednesday, January 16, 2008

How do I compress images in Pages?

You cannot.

Any image you import to Pages stays its original quality and size to allow print outs and exported PDF files to be as good as possible.

If you really want to save space, you have to compress the original image file in an external graphics editor, like iPhoto, Photoshop, Aperture, the gimp, or many others. This is not the place to evaluate which one is best, but there is a list of some possible ones at Wikipedia.

Even though you cannot compress the images within Pages, note that for the finished document, you can export a compressed PDF version from Pages using Share > Export. (Before Pages '09, the menu was File > Export.)

4 comments:

Anonymous said...

This is not true in recent versions of Pages. You now have an option under the File menu to reduce file size which will compress images to the resolution shown in the current version of the document.

Momal said...

But this is not an option if you only have Pages for iPad unfortunately.

Unknown said...

Thanks for the info - saved me a bunch of time. The path, in Pages for Mac, is File-->Advanced-->Reduce File Size.

Unknown said...

how compress my attachment pictures in to pages please help some one.