On 18/01/2007, at 8:13 PM, Mervyn & Giuliana Bond wrote:

PdfCompress-5.3 does a good job.
Merv

At 5:28 PM +0900 18/1/07, Rosemary Horton wrote:
I want to send a pdf by mail and 12 MB is too big; and tried to zip it with archive but it actually didn't decrease in size hardly at all
Ideas?



I'll second that. I once used it reduce a PDF from around 30Mb to about 1.3 Mb, with no appreciable loss of quality. PDFCompress is not free, but it's well worth the price.

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