Help, print to pdf creates huge files!

Usually when I want to print an image created in Photoshop or Illustrator, I first print it to pdf to make a smaller file size. This has worked great for me for years, but now I have an Illustrator file which ends up much bigger (22 mb instead of 2 mb) in the pdf version, and I can see all the layers when it opens. How can I print a flattened image?

If you have layers in Illustrator with visibility off, delete them before making a .pdf.
You would think they that gets deleted before making a .pdf but they do not.
In acrobat the protection/remove hidden information also bitmaps the file, though that is not good for me, oif that is ok you iwll get your smaller file.

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