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Re: Utility to shrink PDF files

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From: Dave
Date: Wed, 20 Feb 2008 18:54
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On Wed, 20 Feb 2008 18:38:18 +0000, "Anthony R. Gold"
<not-for-mail@ahjg.co.uk> wrote:

>On Wed, 20 Feb 2008 20:23:02 +0200, Dave <d@d.durbs> wrote:
>
>> On Wed, 20 Feb 2008 09:16:00 -0800 (PST), 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?
>>>
>>> Please help.
>>>
>>> Thanks !
>>
>>
>> Space is cheap
>
>NASA doesn't think so.
>
>Tony

LOL.. nor does the income tax payer think so

Dave
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From: Dave <d@d.durbs>
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Subject: Re: Utility to shrink PDF files
Date: Wed, 20 Feb 2008 20:54:40 +0200
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