The size of the PDF ebook version of Gold Open Access Journals 2011-2015 bothered me a little (just under 10MB for a 900KB Word file)…
So I tweaked one setting in Nuance PDF Pro and regenerated the PDF.
Which has now been replaced on my personal site, linked to from the project page.
And is now just over two megabytes.
Downside: the crosshatching in free and pay articles by year figures may be cruder. (I reduced the image-quality setting from medium to good: PDF apparently really hates crosshatching.) There should be no other changes--well, come to think of it, I also dropped the cover page. [Thursday, June 9, 2016: dropping the cover was an accident. It’s restored and the file is still just over 2MB–2.2, to be precise.]
Upside: one-fifth the size, one-fifth the download time.
If you want the original or want that cover, you can always get the free PDF from Lulu: I’m not changing that version.
