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Re: Compressing PDF Size

Subject: Re: Compressing PDF Size
From: Al Geist <al -dot- geist -at- geistassociates -dot- com>
To: techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com
Date: Thu, 19 Oct 2006 12:07:09 -0400

You can also sometimes reduce the file size by opening the file in Acrobat and clicking File=>Reduce File Size, then reset your compatibility setting. I've had this work sometimes, but not every time. Gene's method offers more consistency, and I'm not sure how well this works with non Adobe PDF writers. (I'm using Acrobat 6.0 Standard.)

Al


Gene Kim-Eng wrote:

Depends on what settings you used. If the 3Mb file was created
using high quality or standard setting, you can select smallest
file size. If you already used that setting you can go reduce the
dpi of the downsampling settings, but the result for graphics
will be ugly and potentially unreadable.

(The above settings are if you are using Acrobat to generate the
PDF, if you're using some other PDF writer, you'd need to check
what settings are available for it).

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References:
Compressing PDF Size: From: Keith Hansen
Re: Compressing PDF Size: From: Gene Kim-Eng

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