Has anyone else had trouble uploading their electronic portfolio to Princeton's M.Arch online application? My portfolio is within the MB and page dimension size limits, but when I preview the document, it shows up scrambled, with images scattered all over and pages cropped to strange sizes. I'm uploading the document as a PDF. I've tried uploading the portfolio as pages and spreads, large files and small files. Other documents, like my CV are uploading just fine. Any suggestions to troubleshoot?
march'17
Nov 28, 16 5:57 pm
not sure but try rasterizing all the layers so they are down to one image? I really dont know but I think that might work?
gradapps
Dec 4, 16 6:56 pm
Incase anyone else is having this issue, I spoke with Princeton's technical assistance. While scrambled looking images were showing up in my preview, the file that Princeton received was just fine.
arifj
Dec 4, 16 9:38 pm
One good way to reduce file size is to export each page (from Illustrator or InDesign for example, or even Acrobat) as a high quality raster image (300 dpi or so) and then recombine back into a pdf at the correct page size.
This flattens all your images and gets rid of a lot of the layering and transparency things that bog down .pdfs with a lot of vector graphics. Additionally, it also ensures that lineweights in your drawings will be viewed properly instead of hoping that the PDF viewer the admissions committees are using will display your vectors properly.
Has anyone else had trouble uploading their electronic portfolio to Princeton's M.Arch online application? My portfolio is within the MB and page dimension size limits, but when I preview the document, it shows up scrambled, with images scattered all over and pages cropped to strange sizes. I'm uploading the document as a PDF. I've tried uploading the portfolio as pages and spreads, large files and small files. Other documents, like my CV are uploading just fine. Any suggestions to troubleshoot?
not sure but try rasterizing all the layers so they are down to one image? I really dont know but I think that might work?
Incase anyone else is having this issue, I spoke with Princeton's technical assistance. While scrambled looking images were showing up in my preview, the file that Princeton received was just fine.
One good way to reduce file size is to export each page (from Illustrator or InDesign for example, or even Acrobat) as a high quality raster image (300 dpi or so) and then recombine back into a pdf at the correct page size.
This flattens all your images and gets rid of a lot of the layering and transparency things that bog down .pdfs with a lot of vector graphics. Additionally, it also ensures that lineweights in your drawings will be viewed properly instead of hoping that the PDF viewer the admissions committees are using will display your vectors properly.