Illustrator PDF Presets

I do not have any of my PDf presets in CS6 that I had in CS4 (like High Quality Print) does anyone have these or can I download them for somewhere. The illustrator default is creative enormous files.
Thanks
John

You'll probably want to ask the folks over at the general Illustrator forum to help you out. They're more knowledge about Illustrstor-specific questions like yours.

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