You can get reasonable size reduction without spending a cent or downloading any software. Choose print from the file menu. From the bottom drop down menu (in the upper half of the dialogue) choose Colorsync. The in the Quartz Filter drop down menu choose Reduce File Size.
Cheers Greg > From: Peder Kristensen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: Wed, 15 Mar 2006 20:22:50 +0800 > To: WAMUG Mailing List <wamug@wamug.org.au> > Subject: Re: PDF size blowout > > Follow up from Peter's suggestion, > > I have used PDFshrink with great success. With PDFshrink you can > convert PostScript, JPEG, TIFF and other formats directly to PDF. You > can create PDF files for; print, eBooks and web files and it work > just fine. It's also available from VersionTraker - http:// > www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/16233 > > Cheers, > Peder > > On 15/03/2006, at 8:05 AM, Peter Hinchliffe wrote: > >> >> On 13/03/2006, at 11:20 AM, Antony N. Lord wrote: >> >>> I've got an 8 page PDF (1.5Mb). >>> >>> I've opened a single page in Adobe Illustrator to make some >>> changes (delete a line of text and add a caption) and resaved the >>> document. >>> >>> It's now a whopping 5Mb and remains that way after trying to use >>> Acrobat to reduce the file size. >>> >>> Any ideas on a solution - I'm not exactly sure where the original >>> document is that was used to create the PDF (probably a Word file). >>> >> >> I can highly recommend the shareware utility PDF-Compress for >> shrinking PDF Files. I recently had to produce a document as PDF, >> and the resultant file ended up at around 30Mb! PDF-Compress >> reduced that to about 3.1 Mb, with no appreciable difference in >> quality (except for much faster loading speeds). >> >> PDF-Compress is available on VersionTracker, and is worth every >> penny of the shareware price if you work with PDF files. >> >> -- >> Peter Hinchliffe Apwin Computer Services >> FileMaker Pro Solutions Developer >> Perth, Western Australia >> Phone (618) 9332 6482 Fax (618) 9332 0913 >> -------------------------------------------------------------------- >> Mac because I prefer it -- Windows because I have to. >> >> >> >> -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- >> Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> >> Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> >> Unsubscribe - <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- > Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> > Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> > Unsubscribe - <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >
