| [Help] How To Reduce PDF File Size? A friend has created an 8 1/2 X 11 PDF document for an event I am sponsoring. The document is 11 MB in size and I need to reduce the size to something that can be emailed to the media (hopefully less than 1 MB). I have requested that they reduce the file size but apparently they don't know how to do it.
I did some searching online but most references seem to indicate that I need Adobe Acrobat to reduce the file size. Does anyone know of any other software which can be used to do this? Thanks in advance. |
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 ZupePremium,MVM
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New York, NY | The "Reduce File Size" Option in Acrobat generally won't reduce file size as much as you're looking for anyway, as for a file of around 11 MB, the lowest I've ever seen it reduce a file to is about 6 MB.
I'm assuming the original document was scanned. One thing you can try is re-printing the PDF as a new PDF. In other words, choose to print the PDF and print it to Acrobat (or whatever software you use to create PDFs) as a new PDF. This will often reduce the size a fair amount, though possibly not as much as you need.
If that doesn't work, the way I generally deal with it is to just print out the document in hard copy and then re-scan it. On occasion you may have to lower resolution on the scanner, but the majority of the time I can scan a document that was 10+ MB originally using our normal scanner settings and have it come out at less than 1 MB. Of course this is using an office scanner, it may be more difficult/time consuming if you have to scan pages one at a time.
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I've found that re-printing the PDF using the Nitro reader-writer program to be the most effective solution.
I produce a 40-page quarterly magazine for my alumni association using Microsoft Publisher, and must send proofs to the rest of the staff. A PDF of the entire issue created using other PDF writing programs usually exceeds 20 MB in size, which is too much for sending by Email and even with FTP transmission takes far too long. Using Nitro as a pseudo-printer to create the PDF usually brings the size down to around 5 MB which is, in my case, acceptable. Your 11 MB file should come down to around 2 or 3 MB; much will depend on the amount of artwork involved.
The most popular free PDF writers all appear to be front ends to the GhostView program, and all generate about the same output sizes. Nitro seems to be quite different in this respect. It takes a much longer time to load, but generates quite tight output.
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| reply to Oregonian
techsmith.com has an app that will let you take full-page screen shots. You can email out PDF as a BMP or JPEG, but you are sacrificing quality. |
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| reply to Oregonian
Thanks to you all for the suggestions.
My understanding is that the original document was created using some other software (Word?) and then converted to a PDF. My guess, is that the photos, etc. were simply inserted at full resolution and not resampled to make them smaller. The document was then converted to a PDF.
I will consider scanning in a copy of the document as a jpg to reduce the size to a point where it can be emailed.
I have also requested a copy of the original document to see if I can reduce its size before converting it to a PDF.
Thanks again for the help. |
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| Word's "Save as PDF" function has a setting to reduce size. Checkboxes in the dialog.
And yeah, inserting full-resolution photos will definitely bulk up the size, but a little effort on their part will mitigate that.
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| Agreed. I think that the person doing the work is an artistic type who is good at creating posters, etc. but not used to worrying about file size, etc. and not very technical. If I can get them to send me the original document I can take care of reducing the size. Thanks. |
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PDFsam - PDF Split and Merge
A free open source tool to split and merge pdf documents is very handy to manage large pdf files.
It's extremely easy to use. For very large pdfs, it my be practical to split, add a copy of the non-install zip file and send in archive(s) to recipients.
»www.pdfsam.org/?page_id=3
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| Thank you chachazz  . She was able to reduce the file size to under 500 KB using the Reduce File Size option in Acrobat. Apparently she was using a few very large photos for it to be able to reduce it that much. I'll remember your link to PDFsam for the next time. |
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