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From: pg
Date: Thu, 21 Feb 2008 03:15

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On Feb 21, 6:49 am, "pico" <pico.pico.pico> wrote:
> In article
> <c6f57187-2b67-43b3-88d8-8488c43e8...@i7g2000prf.googlegroups.com>,
>  pg  <pen...@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.
>
> Well no wonder. It's stored as near print quality, and 100% pictures.  If it
> could be redone in regular type, it would be under 500k. I don't know
> anything about Asian typefaces, but if the bloke who created it would save
> it as an Adobe PDF or even EPS it would be much, much smaller.
>
> I got it down to 10 MB using Acrobat.  Didn't try to make it any smaller.



May I have a looksee on the 10MB file? Just want to use it for a head-
to-head comparison.

Thanks !!

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