Compress files

Question

Hello!
I have large pdf-batch files which are to be split into smaller files according to certain rules. The Adobe Acrobat SDK code is something like (performed in a loop):
pdDocNew.Create( );
pdDocNew.InsertPages( -1, batchFile, startpage, numberOfPages, 0 );
pdDocNew.Save( (
short ) Acrobat.PDSaveFlags.PDSaveFull | ( short ) Acrobat.PDSaveFlags.PDSaveCollectGarbage, ed.OutputFile );pdDocNew.Close( );
The problem is that the file size of each newly created file is too large (1 200 kb). If I instead, manually opens the batch file and performs an Extract Pages, the file created is much smaller (40kb) so some kind of compression takes place in the code behind. 
Is it possible to retrieve the functionality of the "Document => Extract Pages" menu item from within the Adobe Acrobat SDK in any way?
There will be about 18 milllions of files, so both new file size and compression rate are really important to me.
Is it possible to optimize the batch files with batch commands instead? (In some files it seams like the fonts takes about 90 % of the size and in some the streaming content does.)
Is it perhaps better to do this in a completely different way?

Answer 1

If you are using 10g, there is a UTL_COMPRESS package that might be useful. I'm not sure what a .LST file is, though, so I'm not sure how useful Oracle's compression routines would be.
Justin
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