Acrobat 9 ReduceFileSize chokes on PPT PDF document

Hi folks,
just printed a .ppt file created w/ MS PowerPoint 2008 Mac to disk (as .pdf document). When I tried to reduce the file size of this .pdf in Acrobat Pro 9.3, an error msg came up:
"An error was encountered while processing images."
Now I reopened that same .ppt file w/ MS PowerPoint 2004 Mac and printed it to disk (as .pdf document). When I tried to reduce the file size of this .pdf document w/ the same Acrobat app, the process was successful. Any clues?
Why can't Acrobat 9.3 reduce the file size of .pdf documents that were originally created with PPT2008, but is able to do so if the .pdf is derived from PPT2004???
- HaMü -

HI Hamu
Thanks for your response. I spent way too much time on this today compared to what it was worth, and your post was similar to another that I found. I followed some of the advice for using the optimiser from the following URL and was able to optimise the document from about 3 Mb to 1.5 Mb without the optimiser choking. Give it a go...
Markoui
http://www.appligent.com/talkingpdf-understandingacrobatsoptimizer

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