Hi Robert, http://www.unido.org/userfiles/PuffK/CorporateSocialResponsibility.pdf On 1/4/07, Robert MacLeay <robertmacleay at mac.com> wrote: > Much depends on what is stored in the file, and what version of the pdf > standard was used originally. > > Adobe Acrobat Pro has a Reduce File Size feature which works as advertised. > It works by (1) saving in a later, more efficient pdf format [which will > make it unreadable by earlier pdf readers]; (2) drastically increasing the > compression of included graphics; and (3) deleting duplicated elements. > There may be other things it does as well. > > Note that the efficiency of this depends on the inefficiency of the program > which originally created the document. In practice, I have seen MS > Word-created pdfs shrunk to 10% of their original size, and Acrobat-created > pdfs shrunk to 99% of their original size. YMMV. > > Can you supply a link to the guilty document? > > On 1/4/07 12:40 PM, "Brian Durant" <globetrotterdk at gmail.com> wrote: > > > I have a UN .pdf file that I would like to distribute online to a > > social networking site. Unfortunately, the site only allows max 1 MB > > uploads and of course the UN, being a bit of a talking shop, the .pdf > > file weighs in at 2.3 MB. How can I get the file from a bloated 2.3 MB > > to a svelte 1MB? I have tried Unarchiver and Guitar which are both > > excellent utilities, but don't do the trick. I also don't want to > > strip anything from the .pdf as it then would no longer be the same > > authorized file. I just need to be able to compress the hell out of > > it. > > > > Any ideas?? > > > > Cheers, > > > > Brian