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Windows How to reduce a PDF file size???

Discussion in 'Tech Support' started by neil_b, 14 Jul 2009.

  1. neil_b

    neil_b Minimodder

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    I was sent a PDF of a document, and its 12MB in size and what I really want/need is a smaller version of it that's around 1MB.

    Does anyone know of a that I can use to reduce the size of the file??? I don't want to shell out ££100's of pounds for Adobe Photoshop, and I don't have access to the original pshop files etc.

    Thanks!
     
  2. Fod

    Fod what is the cheesecake?

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    this might be worth a try; install a free PDF print driver like pdf995 and print the PDF file using that - it may reduce in size as it will reprocess the graphics which are almost definitely causing it to be so big.

    otherwise this will be possible with some ghostscript code-fu, but dont ask me ;P
     
  3. smajer

    smajer what?!

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  4. darkorb

    darkorb What's a Dremel?

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    You can also try using CutePDF for the same (last time I looked at pdf995 it had ad's all over it). Seems to do a good job creating small PDF's when I've used it.
     
  5. Jenny_Y8S

    Jenny_Y8S Guest

    Depends on why the original is so big, if it's a PDF made up from one or many scanned images, then reducing it by the size you want may make it look terrible
     

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