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

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On Feb 21, 1:38 am, retsu...@xinap.moc (Mike S.) wrote:
> In article <c6f57187-2b67-43b3-88d8-8488c43e8...@i7g2000prf.googlegroups.com>,
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> pg  <pen...@catholic.org> wrote:
> >I have a huge pdf file, @http://penangA1.com/Malaysia/bn106.pdf
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> >Size is over 27 MB.
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> >I need to shrink it.
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> >Anyone know any pdf shrinker that can do the trick?
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> >I tried CVista pdfCompressor, it shrinks the  28,523,179 byte file to
> >27,100,963 byte file.
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> >A less than 4% shrinking.
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> >I downloaded the free PDF Compressor fromwww.nicepdf.combut the
> >compressor tells me that my huge pdf file has a wrong version of some
> >sort.
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> >I know there's one from Apago, but it runs only on OS-X, not Windows.
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> >So in short, is there any shrinker for that huge file?
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> 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.

Put all my $$$ to host the file already, can't find any spare change
for Adobe Acrobat.

Perhaps someone here got the Adobe Acrobat, wanna help out, please?

Thank you !

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