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Article #12Re: Utility to shrink PDF files
From: Mike S.
Date: Wed, 20 Feb 2008 17:38
Date: Wed, 20 Feb 2008 17:38
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In article <c6f57187-2b67-43b3-88d8-8488c43e8dee@i7g2000prf.googlegroups.com>, pg <penang@catholic.org> wrote: >I have a huge pdf file, @ http://penangA1.com/Malaysia/bn106.pdf > >Size is over 27 MB. > >I need to shrink it. > >Anyone know any pdf shrinker that can do the trick? > >I tried CVista pdfCompressor, it shrinks the 28,523,179 byte file to >27,100,963 byte file. > >A less than 4% shrinking. > >I downloaded the free PDF Compressor from www.nicepdf.com but the >compressor tells me that my huge pdf file has a wrong version of some >sort. > >I know there's one from Apago, but it runs only on OS-X, not Windows. > >So in short, is there any shrinker for that huge file? It depends on the content to a great degree. If the bulk is due to the presence of huge bitmaps, then a tighter compression algorithm may reduce the bulk but don't expect miraculous results. Unfortunately the biggest gains are probably to be made using Adobe Acrobat (payware), which can encode the PDF to a higher version that allows more sophisticated compression algorithms.
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