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From: pg
Date: Thu, 21 Feb 2008 03:23

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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.

It's a flyer of sort, so as long as the characters are legible, it
doesn't matter much for the graphics.

If you got the chance, could you try to make squeeze it to the
smallest size possible? I wonder how _that_ would look like.

Thanks in advance !

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