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!
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
Here are some good articles: http://www.pdfzone.com/c/a/Document-Management/Reduce-Your-PDF-File-Sizes/ http://blog.nitropdf.com/index.php/2008/02/11/5-tricks-to-shrinkreduce-pdf-file-size/ Try PrimoPDF in the above link.
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.
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