[X-Apps] Shrinking PDFs

[Dan Frakes]

John B. Thoo <jb2 at ms.yuba.cc.ca.us> wrote:
> 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!

If you created your PDF via OS X's Print dialog, try this:

Go to the Print dialog, but before you click "Save as PDF..." click on the
options pop-up menu. Select ColorSync. Then, from the Quartz Filter pop-up
menu, select Reduce File Size. *Then* click "Save as PDF..." The resulting
PDF should be smaller. How much smaller depends on your document -- this
trick works much better on documents with graphics/pictures.



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