Compressed files does reduce in file size.

Help please trying to send a pdf file 22MB and compressing it does not reduce the size.
How do i reduce the file size.

funlola,
By nature PDF files are already fairly optimized and compressed. Preview or Adobe Acrobat may be able to reduce the file size a bit more but at a cost of a noticably lower quality PDF. If a lower quality PDF is acceptable for your use-case then Carolyn's suggestion will work wonderfully and for free.
If the process of optimizing your PDF further produces a poor quality PDF, then you may be better off skipping email and exchanging the original large PDF using a better tool for the exchange of large files such as Dropbox.com or Gogle Drive.
Hope this helps,
Tim

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I used a screen capture video program and recorded at the full screen resolution, 1280x800. The initial streaming presentation would be a smaller resolution, but should the viewer choose to go full screen, I would like it to be crisp and clear, so my goal is to maintain 1280x800, or close to it.
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jenryp wrote:
Hi!
I'm having troubles with the size of my files in Illustrator CS4, My files always ends with sizes near 100mb!
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