How can I shrink my file size to a certain size?

Hello - I have gotten myself lost and frustrated. I made a sign that we are going to have printed, but in order to upload it to the company, the file can be no larger than 12MB. It was set at 300psi, but found out that it had to be 75psi. So, it went from 200MB to 14.4MB, but I can't get it down any further. It has three pictures, two text boxes and one image. All of the images have all been rasterized and grouped together. The two text boxes are grouped together, but I am now lost on how to get the file size any smaller. The pictures must stay the same. Is there something that I can do to the text to shrink that down? I just need to get 2.4MB smaller.
Can anyone give me some tips?
Thanks,
Sean

How are you going to get the file to the printers?
What is its physical size (dimensions) and what will be its viewing distance?
You can do several things but probably the best way is to save as pdf and control the jpeg compression carefully. If you know that the sign is not going to be viewed at very close range you can use High or medium compression, bearing in mind that a lot of the jpeg artifacts will be swallowed up by the halftone screen. Maybe the images don't need a lot of resolution. 75 ppi sounds like that's right.
Anyway, check downsampling when saving as pdf. Use JPEG compression (ZIP is useless for images) and see what resolution you can get away with. A close look at the resulting pdf ((zoom well in) will show you exactly what you have done.

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