Ever have your InDesign document file size starts to balloon seemingly out of control, or seem oddly really big to be posting on Basecamp or Beanstalk?

Often times, the reason is that as you Save, Save, Save, Save your file iteratively over it’s life cycle, INDD’s format tends to save alot of historical information about your artwork and changes over time.  Trouble is, it’s not like the file works as a Time Machine or anything - the information is just file bloat to you.

So today, as I rec’d a 33MB document, I applied my old trick of Save As.  By doing a “Save As” over top of the original file, the file size was halved to around 17MB and all that bloat is removed.  Much better, if still quite a bit large.  Oh well, life isn’t perfect.