I'm trying to apply for graduate programs online and they want me to upload a scanned copy of my official transcripts so I scanned them and saved them as .pdf files but the files are much too large to upload onto their applet. They don't accept .zip files, so any ideas on how I can significantly reduce reduce the file size? I'm a Mac user if it makes any difference.

thanks ahead of time

12/14/2010 3:44:12 PM

In Acrobat, there are settings you can alter to change the quality and compression for images in PDFs. Also, you can probably get away with scanning between 80 and 150 dpi and you don't need color.

12/14/2010 3:53:01 PM

any way to do this in preview? I don't actually have acrobat

12/14/2010 3:57:07 PM

Document>Reduce File Size

[Edited on December 14, 2010 at 3:57 PM. Reason : oh wait that's pro]

12/14/2010 3:57:10 PM

you need to go into the output settings and save the embedded images at a lower resolution and a higher compression. If you scanned them at a high resolution it'll usually embed the full size inside each page. There is the the PDF Optimizer under the Advanced menu and the Reduce File Size under the Document menu.

12/14/2010 4:02:47 PM

OCR nuqqa

12/14/2010 4:08:41 PM