Indesign PDF optimization

Hello,
lets say that I want to make Indesign PDF, done from only one image of 50 kb, multiplied 10 times.
How can Indesign (or PDF) embed image only once instead od 10 times? So the PDF is 50kb instead of 500 kb?
Thank you very much,
Toni

Thank you, and especially thanks for the link. I will try to ask there
also...
2010/7/4 <[email protected]>
Well, it got way better with CS4. If you search the forum for (I think) PDF
XObjects, you might come across a discussion where Dov Isaacs explained some
of CS4's behavior.
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(NM, I found it:
http://forums.adobe.com/thread/580904?decorator=print&displayFullThread=true
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It's all done internally, nothing the user can do to influence it.
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