[X-Apps] Shrinking PDFs

[Lotas Smartman]

this is a guess, but i think acrobat may put some sort of version 
tracking on there somewhere? a very big guess since i havent used it 
that much.
Lotas T Smartman, MCP
www.lotas-smartman.net
www.the-hairy-one.com
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On 2 Feb 2004, at 15:23, Steven Rogers wrote:

>
> On Feb 2, 2004, at 9:06 AM, John B. Thoo wrote:
>
>> On Monday, February 2, 2004, at 06:04 AM, Lotas Smartman 
>> X-Applications you wrote:
>>
>>> PDF Shrink does the job. its on version tracker here
>>> (http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/16233). it also
>>> combines PDF files (if i have the correct one. i might not...)
>>
>> Lotas Smartman, thanks for the suggestion.  I will take a look at PDF 
>> Shrink.  I scanned 25 pages of a document yesterday using VueScan, 
>> saved the pages to PDF from the Print box, and put them together into 
>> one PDF file using Acrobat 5.0.5.  The result was a whopping 43.5 MB 
>> PDF file!  I hope that I can try PDF Shrink before having to pay.
>
> I was putting a PDF form with some javascript together yesterday (in 
> Acrobat), and as I tweaked and re-saved it, I noticed the file got 
> bigger and bigger every time I saved it. At first, but just a few 
> dozen k, but after a while by 500k each save. Fortunately, it occurred 
> to me to try doing a "save as" to a new file, and that does seem to 
> reset the process, so I got back from a 2 MB file to a 160k file. 
> Don't know if that works in every case, but it does seem to help 
> Acrobats problem with growing PDF files.
>
> SR
>
>
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