Compress pdf/reduce file size

I have both Acrobat 9 pro extended & 10 X pro, when i use the 9 version to compress a pdf file(using optimized scan pdf), i find it very powerful & the file becomes extremely small, but when i use the same option in 10 X pro, the file becomes bigger actually. any clue? & what's the best way the compress pdf files in Acrobat 10 X pro?

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PDF reduce file size filters and CMYK to RGB conversion

This doesn't seem to be on-topic to this forum, but I'm hoping someone here has the expertise to answer my question. We have some scripts which take a series of press-quality pdfs and use the "reduce file size" filter to prepare them for viewing on the web. We run these scripts on a 10.4 machine, and the filter works very well, reliably reducing file sizes of all sorts of pages.
When we tried to upgrade the machine, we discovered that the quartz filtering has changed in 10.5 and 10.6. While it's usually an improvement, getting maybe 5-10% better compression ratios, it has become unreliable in that about 5% of my files fail spectacularly -- they blow up to 3, 4, 5, 6 times the original size.
The other thing that happens is that the 10.5/10.6 filters munge the colors up. I found the solution to this -- in the ColorSynchUtility, make a duplicate of the Reduce File Size filter, and add a Color Management Component called Convert To Profile. This allows me to set a filter that converts the CMYK content to RGB. The problem is that there are about 40 choices of profiles, and it's not at all clear what I should use. Many of them have printer manufacturer's names in them, some say "Adobe", others have cryptic codes (probably referring to various RFCs and schemes). I've tried a couple of the ones that don't look like they are for printers, basically chosen at random. They all produce files of slightly different sizes for the reductions that go well, but on the files that blow up, some filters are better than others. (For example, I have a 5MB page which reduces to 1.4MB with the 10.4 filter, but blows up to 27MB with the "sRGB IE61966-2.1" profile, but only 12MB with the "Adobe RGB" profile.)
So I have 2 questions:
1) Is there any way to configure a 10.5/10.6 custom profile so that it behaves as reliably as the 10.4 "stock" PDF Reduce File Size works? It doesn't have to be the most wonderful compression algorithm out there, just so that it never or rarely has a file blow up in size.
2) For converting press documents to pdfs that are going to go on the web, what is a good "Convert to profile" to use of the 40-some choices on the pull-down menu?

Cathy,
You have posted your question in a forum dedicated to the Final Cut Studio application Color. It is a very specialized program to grade (adjust) the color in video/film images. We know nothing regarding PDFs.
Have you tried posting this on an Adobe support site?
Good luck,
x

PDF Reduce File Size makes certain pdfs HUGE

Generally reduce file size works great for me but certain files, those coming from someone using Microsoft Publisher in particular, result in larger pdfs. She sends me newsletters for a website and sometimes the 3 page pdfs are 2-4mb. I tried opening in Preview and re-saving them using the Reduce File Size filter and the result is that they ballon up to 50-100mb!! Info for the file reveals that the pdf producer is GPL Ghostscript 8.15 and the content creator is PScript5.dll Version 5.2.2. I seem to be able to open and reduce file size using Acrobat so I'm not quite sure why Preview is choking on them.

geekinthegarden wrote:
Generally reduce file size works great...
Microsoft Publisher...Ghostscript...PScript5.dll
I seem to be able to open and reduce file size using Acrobat so I'm not quite sure why Preview is choking on them.
Hi geekinthegarden- This does not surprise me. There are many variations and reiterations in specifications of the PDF format.
Going from Ghostscript language interpreter, to Apple in rendering could introduce complications which we will not be able to sort out in this forum encapsulating a complete description of a fixed-layout 2D documents that includes the text, fonts, images, and 2D vector graphics which compose the documents.
Suffice to say it is not a perfect science.
Print PDF has a compress PDF file option as well as ColorSynch in your /Utilities folder +reduce file size+ option for PDF's. This may or may not be of use.
You found your workaround using Acrobat, this is part of the value of having more than one PDF viewer, good computing!

Automator pdf reduce file size action

I have a saved action to reduce file size for pdfs and want to change the resolution, but it's grayed out. Can someone tell me how I can do this?
Thank you!

Cathy,
You have posted your question in a forum dedicated to the Final Cut Studio application Color. It is a very specialized program to grade (adjust) the color in video/film images. We know nothing regarding PDFs.
Have you tried posting this on an Adobe support site?
Good luck,
x

Interative pdfs- reducing file size?

Hi again,
I have created a page turning pdf and cannot work out how to reduce the file size of this.I have tried reducing the size of the jpeg to minimum in ad settings and obviously using 72dpi with a result in no reduction of file size. Is there anything anyone can think of just to get it down y 1 meg? I want to change the pdf from 6.4 to <5mg to make it email friendly! If have have not been very clear, please feel free to ask me more questions if you think you may be able to help.
Many thanks,
Sam

PDF files don't support "page-turning", so what you've made is a single-page PDF file containing one full-page Flash annotation. Inside that is a SWF (usually a whole bunch of them) which contains your actual document, and nothing Acrobat does with PDF compression settings will have any bearing on the contents of embedded SWF files - the only way to do that is to change the quality settings in the original application that's exporting the SWFs.

Compress or reduce file size

This is a pretty basic question but I have never had this issue before. I have an mpeg file (mpeg1 muxed codec) of 18mb which is too big to email. What's the best way of either decreasing the file size or compressing it?
Also, I seem to think that neither iMovie HD or iMovie 08 can deal with an old mpeg file. . the sound gets lost?
Thanks
Tom

Also, I seem to think that neither iMovie HD or iMovie 08 can deal with an old mpeg file. . the sound gets lost?
This is normal. The QT structure is "playback only" compatible with multiplexed files (MPEG-1, MPEG-2, VOB, Flash, etc.). Use an MPEG-base, third party conversion application (with required QT components installed if needed) here to transcode the content and retain audio. (I.e., the free MPEG Streamclip application will handle MPEG-1 content.)
I have an mpeg file (mpeg1 muxed codec) of 18mb which is too big to email. What's the best way of either decreasing the file size or compressing it?
There are two basic approaches here. The first is to re-compress the file using a more efficient codec (like H.264/AAC) using a lower data rate than your original file. Depending on your original video data rate, you may have a lot of "headroom" for re-compression or only a small amount. In the later case, you may have to also reduce the dimension of your export to preserve maximum quality. What you finally do may likely depend on what you can "live with" in terms of quality and file size.
A second, approach would be to upload your original file to an online server and then send the URL for the file, a reference movie, or a QTL (QuickTime Media Link) file which will play the online movie back on the recipient's computer. An offshoot of this approach would be to post the file to your own web site page using an application like iWeb and allowing the recipient to view and/or download the file directly from your site or subscribe via RSS if you plan to provide content on a regular basis (e.g., as a Podcast or Video Blog).

Compression to reduce file size

Hi everyone,
I am trying to reduce a 14GB video file down to 4 GB so I can upload directly to a web site. My current project settings is DSLR 1920x1080 and I typically export to a .mp4 1920x1080 p 30. (which yields a 14 GB file) So my theory was to try downsizing to 720 p which would hopefully reduce the file size enough but still maintain an HD setting. So here is what I am curious to hear from the experts on this board. Is that a good strategy? What 720p setting should I choose in the Share section? (none of the options for 720 p shpws 30 fps so i am guesing I will have to change that to 60fps?)And finally, what degree of quality woud you expect I would lose downsizing from 1080p to 720p?
Thanks for your time and input!

adobenewbie123
AAC (Audio Coding)
Advanced Audio Coding - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
256 kbps (Bitrate)
That would be 256 kilobits per second
That would mean to me that there are 256 kilobits of data stored in every second of the music. Lots of online articles
on the influence of bitrate on your music.
48 kHz (Sampling Rate)
Sampling (signal processing) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Stereo (Channels 2)
You may find the following interesting
Adobe Audition "A Digital Audio Primer"
http://ifsstech.files.wordpress.com/2008/06/audaudioprimer1.pdf
and
on Premiere Elements Audio Tools (written using 12 to demo, but essentially applicable to your version 10)
http://www.atr935.blogspot.com/2014/05/pe12-audio-features.html
ATR

Save in Pdf reduce file size

Hey Guys,
I'd need some help as i'm totally confused.
My problem: I create a new document in Photoshop with 1200x600px 300dpi dimensions. After editing I want to save in PDF format with the same dimensions. But. The final PDF file is totally small around 288x129. I tried every single options to change in the save dialogue without any success. If i open the document with 72dpi then the final image size will be perfect. But i need 300dpi.
Any idea?
Thanks

First of all thx for your time. So i went back to basics to check this out. I create a blank document with these settings:
For simplicity i just save this blank white page as pdf with the following settings:
And after that i get a 288x144 px pdf file. The image dimensions look like this in ps:

Colorsync Utility: PDF Compression vs. Reduce File Size filters

What's the difference between these two? I used Automator to make two applications, which I think I screwed up, because they're not reducing file sizes now. 1 would make 100+ pngs into a pdf and use "reduce file size," I think. 300 MB would become 80 MB, e.g. I would then use a not-so-great PDF application called PDFStudio9 (because I lost my Acrobat DVD and couldn't get a replacement) to OCR that reduced-size pdf. At which point I would run the other application, which I think compressed the OCR'd pdf. Which would be about 40 MB at the end. But I'm not sure if that's the order of compression I used.
So what's the difference between the two types of filters, and when would I want to use each for ultimately creating a non-titanic-sized pdf?

Cathy,
You have posted your question in a forum dedicated to the Final Cut Studio application Color. It is a very specialized program to grade (adjust) the color in video/film images. We know nothing regarding PDFs.
Have you tried posting this on an Adobe support site?
Good luck,
x

Compress PDF vs. Reduced File Size Quartz Filter?

Sometimes the PDFs I produce through the print function get pretty huge.
In the PDF drop down on the print menu there is a compress PDF option that I sometimes use.
Then someone said I should go to print, to the copies and pages, select "colour sinc" and on the Quartz Filter select "Reduce File Size" then hit the "save as pdf" on the pdf button.
I have no idea what I just typed
What's the difference between the two approaches and which would produce the best quality PDF at an manageable size?
I just tried PDFing this page using the three options -- regular pdf, compressed pdf and that colour sink / quartz filter / reduce file size. Damned if the smallest file isn't the regular (at 76 kb) next is the reduced (92kb) and the largest file is the compressed (140kb). Maybe not a proper test but what the heck?
Any thoughts?
Thanks

I believe that the same filter is applied no matter whether it is done through the Compress PDF button, which is an Automator action, or using ColorSync.
If you would like to experiment with it, you can also apply it through the ColorSync Utility. If you copy the Reduce File Size filter, you can change the amount of reduction done. You can preview the results there, too.
The filter only affects images, not text.

How do you reduce file size of a PDF if Save As doesnt work?

I have been trying to reduce the size of a PDF, using the Save As > Optimized PDF method.
I have also tried Save As > Reduced Size PDF.
This is on a file made up of 20 pages of full page Jpegs. (These were generated by the script in Photoshop that generates Jpeg files from Layer Comps within the document.)
If I use Reduced Size PDF, I get a greatly reduced file size but the image quality suffers greatly. (Lots of artifacts and blurryness)
There are no options to choose the level of compression I want.
If I use Optimized PDF method, I cant seem to reduce the file size no matter what I set the Jpeg compression to.
Is there some way to cut the size of the file down but not lose so much image quality?
Any suggestions?

Part of the problem here is that the files that are produced when I run the script to output files from layer comps are very big.
If I "save for web" for each layer comp, I wind up with way smaller Jpegs. Thus a much smaller PDF.
So the question is: Can you make the script, Layer Comps to Files, create smaller more optimized Jpegs? (Like you get when you save for web)

I need to compress an InDesign file to web-quality pdf but file size is still too big. Help!

I need to compress an InDesign file to web-quality pdf but file size is still too big. Help!

Hi Bill,
It sounds like your document has a lot of pages and/or images in it.
Instead of using the normal InDesign > Export command to create a PDF, you may be able to reduce the file size by printing to a PostScript file, then distilling it to PDF using Acrobat Distiller.

Reduce File Size and Optimise PDF both increase file size

Hi All
I have exported a pdf (our college mag) at smallest file size from Indesign CS4 for online use. The problem is the resultant file size is a little under 19Mb. Using both or either Reduce File Size or Optimise functions simply result in an increase to 22Mb. The document is packed with images however I would have thought one or both of these processes would have helped reduce the file size to a more manageable download file size.
A pdf is also produced to go to print so simply compressing all images prior to imcuding them in Indesign is not a preferable option - this would mean creating two separate Indesign documents, something which I would rather avoid if possible.
Any help would be greatly appreciated as always.
The file reside here if anyone cares to take a look http://www.ayrcoll.ac.uk/index.php?name=UpDownload&req=viewdownload&cid=11&orderby=dateD It's the latest release (September 09)
Thanks
Colin

You might want to do an audit of the PDF (button in PDF Optimizer) and try to figure out what the various parts are. It shows 58% is content streams (sorry, but I am not sure what that is), 26% is overhead, and only 12.7% is graphics. Since you are not storing bookmarks and such, you might want to try going back to ID and printing to the Adobe PDF printer for a comparison. It may be one technique is more efficient than the other.
When I used the optimizer, the file did get larger. When I used Reduce File Size, it got slightly smaller. The key may be in figuring out what the various parts are from the audit. You might try copying one page of ID to a new document and play with various versions - different fonts (all were embedded and that is probably best), variations on graphics, etc. That is all I can suggest since I would simply be playing with different ways to produce the document and looking at what is causing the bloat. When the Images are only 12.7% and the fonts less than 1%, there is something going on to produce the size, and those 2 are typically the killers. I would mention tags that tend to bloat, but you do not have any (normally used for assessibility).
You might want to try some of the preflight checks to find issues. I did the transparency check and got 170 instances in 22 pages. Flattening the page may help. There were some pages that seemed to be very bad. However, I did not get a big file size reduction. I did not get a lot of improvement by printing to a new PDF either. Certain pages seem to be part of the bloat problem. The print took a long time around pages 11 and 22.
One troubleshooting technique would be extract pages to separate files and look at the details of each page to see what is causing the issue.
Need to go. Good luck.

Reduce File Size in Acrobat Pro (9.5.5) Corrupts Graphics in PDF Documents - shows up as black image

Whenever I use Reduce File Size in Acrobat Pro (9.5.5), sometimes some of the images (not all) get corrupted and show up as a black image in the new document.
Actually, the new reduced document looks okay when viewed in Acrobat, but the problem shows up when viewed in the Preview application on the Mac.
I'm using Acrobat 9.5.5 with Mac OS 10.8.6
I've tried re-importing the graphic into a new graphic box, which didn't work. Thinking there may be some type of corruption with the actual graphic file, I then tried viewing the graphic, then taking a screenshot of it to create a completely new file, and then re-importing the new graphic file into the original document (created in Adobe In Design 5.0.4). I then export the new document as a pdf, and brought it into Acrobat Pro to do the Reduce File Size. Same thing happens - black box appears where the graphic was.
I then tried using the Reduce File Size within the Save As function of the Preview application on the Mac - while the graphic remains intact, many of the other graphics in the document are "reduced" too much, to the point where the image quality is seriously degraded, and therefore not usable.
Any other ideas?

Hi Anoop,
I can share the graphic file, but not the pdf which contains it (as it contains confidential information) - thanks!

Reducing file sizes of multiple PDF's

Hello everyone,
I just got hired at a structural engineering company, and we are trying to go "paperless". I am in charge of scanning tons and tons of our old record drawings. We have an old scanner and the PDF's it creates are anywhere between 10,000Kb to 70,000Kb. After I scan every sheet, I am supposed to use the "Reduce file size" option in Adobe Acrobat. I am using Adobe Acrobat 7.0 Professional and I always make the files compatible with 5.0, which reduces the file size by 1/6 - 1/10. I've only been able to reduce 1 sheet at a time, which again, is time consuming. Is there a way I can reduce multiple files at once? I looked online and found an article here: http://help.adobe.com/en_US/Acrobat/9.0/Standard/WS65C0A053-BC7C-49a2-88F1-B1BCD2524B68.w. html, saying that in Adobe Acrobat 9.0, I can select "Apply to multiple" to reduce multiple files. Is there a way I can do it without upgrading?
Thank you in advance.

Unfortunately, it's not possible if you're using Acrobat XI. In previous
versions you can tell an Action to ignore non-PDF files but this feature
was removed in XI. Also, 35,000 files is way too much for Acrobat to
process. You need a more robust application for such a batch processing
task.

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