


Not to mention the network will grind to a nearly complete halt. Now, hard drives and bandwidth may be cheap, but when you have four hundred plus attendees all trying to download the same 175MB PDF at the same time, the venue’s conference manager will drop by to find out what the bleeding eyestalks your attendees are doing and why it’s taking down the entire outbound pipe.

We had one speaker last year whose lovingly crafted and beautifully designed 151-slide deck resulted in a 175MB PDF. One of the things you discover as a speaker and, especially, a conference organizer is this: Keynote generates really frickin’ enormous PDFs.
