I searched the forum and did not see a thread for this.

I have a 1 page .PDF that my boss passed along to me. It is a one page flyer of our company and is being distributed to a lot of email addresses. The problem is that this 1 page PDF is 2.4 MB. I tried searching the web to find a way to reduce the file size but no luck. This is probably a quick fix so any help would be greatly appreciated. BTW - One more day to Friday.

3/20/2008 8:41:03 AM

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=reduce+pdf+file+size&btnG=Google+Search

3/20/2008 8:43:52 AM

How was the PDF constructed? Is it just a scanned page? Does it contain a lot of seperate images? Is it purely for email or do you intend it to go to print/press?

I this is jsut for email use, check your PDF encoding settings and try changing the setting to be optimized for screen use. This should be a standard pre-set for Acrobat.

3/20/2008 8:44:47 AM

the pro version of acrobat has a PDF optimizer in the Advanced file menu that works great for me

3/20/2008 9:19:08 AM

I only have Acrobat Reader but did find PDF Compressor Desktop Edition freeware.

http://www.bureausoft.com/products.html

zapped 2.4 MB PDF to 74KB - thanks to all.

3/20/2008 11:46:23 AM

sometimes you can "pdf a pdf" to make it smaller, although sometimes this actually results in a larger file. try it:

open the pdf in acrobat (i'm assuming you have acrobat or some other pdf writer). then print to pdf. see if that helps.

3/20/2008 12:22:35 PM

^ Why not directly handle the root-cause issues like image compression?

3/20/2008 1:52:33 PM

^ that's what the PDF optimizer in pro does

[Edited on March 20, 2008 at 2:52 PM. Reason : .]

3/20/2008 2:52:17 PM