Creating PDFs that small enough to d-load

Creating PDF job applications (small enough to dload)
behnaz a - 09:26pm Sep 20, 2008 Pacific
I have sort of a complicated question. I am wanting to use Adobe Acrobat to create PDF job applications b/c several positions I am applying for request applications via e-mail. Along with a cover letter and resume, I want to send my writing samples in the PDF. I have the original PDFs of the published articles and I am using Photoshop to crop out my articles and scale them down so they can print out on a standard piece of computer paper. After I'm done editing in Photoshop, I save it as an Photoshop PDF file, which I then open up in Adobe Acrobat. Then I batch everything together as a several page PDF file.
My problem is that the PDFs files end up HUGE.. about 22 megs... and no employer will have the patience to try to download that. I tried experimenting with the resolution on Photoshop, but I found that caused the prints to come out blurry and unreadable. Furthermore, it only brought down the file size a little bit.
Basically, I would like to know how I can create PDFs of my writing samples - in good, printable quality - at a small file size. I should note that the original PDFs I am editing are small... only about 700 kbs. It's just that when I do my edits in Photoshop, the files turn out huge.
If anyone can help me with this or direct me to a forum where I can get some help, I'd really appreciate it.
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You might have just printed them 2-up or such to obtain what you were looking for. A touched up article might appear to be questionable (i.e., fake) and they may prefer to see them in the journal context or in the form they were originally submitted. A lot depends on the job you are going for and what they asked for. For instance, they may ask for selected articles. Few places would ask for all. There are a lot of variations to consider.
When you save the PDF (if manipulated in Acrobat), be sure to use SAVE AS. You can also try using Reduce File Size or PDF Optimize. The latter has an audit feature to see where the size bulk is. However, if you are doing everything in PhotoShop and the original was not a graphic, that is the major problem.

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