Hi everyone. This is my first post here in the graphic section, so I hope you can help. I have designed a 24 page brochure in InDesign CS5, designed for print. The brochure is heavily image based, as it is advertising a show. When I export, the brochure is 37MB. I can send the file via Dropbox to the printers, however I was concerned with this file size, as I have seen other large documents at much, much smaller sizes. My PDF export settings are set to 300 dpi for the images, as I need 300 dpi for print. Is this correct?

 

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

seems a pretty reasonable size - you could (assuming you have distiller) print a ps file (post script file), ask the printers for the right distiller settings to use and then use distiller to make a smaller pdf.