Can I prevent preview from making files larger?

This thread finds that Preview makes PDFs larger in 10.6 and 10.8. I have experienced this from 10.6 through 10.10.1 (staying up to date all the while).
How do I prevent this from happening? Is there any sign that Apple will make a PDF editor as useful as Acrobat anytime soon?
Other Info
- I often sanitize PDFs in Acrobat to eliminate issues
- I often text encode (OCR) PDFs in Acrobat (because I need to)
(Why I don't use Acrobat: because it can't do full screen and it is the opposite of the minimalist style I prefer)

Oh oops!
Forgot it
Just changed my message!
Thanks for reminding me.

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Date: Thu, 18 Jun 2009 08:49:46 -0600
From: [email protected]
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Subject: How can I prevent Bridge from altering my photos?
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