Optimization in Acrobat 10

I am having an issue in Acrobat 10 using a Fujitsu fi-1640 scanner. It scans via TWAIN just fine but when Acrobat does the optimization process occasionally it just sits there forever on the optimization. When you click cancel the window goes away but it won't let you do anything else stating that the scan process is still in process. IF I scan via WIA then it works fine. I have tried disabling the optimization process when scanning but unchecking the box but it still does the process. I have updated the TWAIN drivers which helped but it did not solve it. I would be happy to just disable optimization if that is what it took. Any ideas?

I just wanted to state that I am having the same problem with a fi-6130. However, in this case it is consistently and not occasionally. It is happening with two different users on two different computers. We are using the most current drivers and patch for Acrobat X. I would love to hear a solution.

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Where are the same file minimizing functions that exist in PDF Optimizer in Acrobat Pro 9 found in X1? So frustrating. I work in Illustrator and am dependent on this function to get files down to a reasonable size for sending to print, the client and so much more. Help!

Hi Cford Artists,
Is this what you're looking for: File > Save As Other > Optimized PDF?
Please let us know if not!
Best,
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Where is PDF Optimizer in Acrobat X Pro?

Just downloaded the trial version of Acrobat X Pro (said to be a full version). New menu system - cannot find "PDF Optimizer" screen which was under "Advanced" tab on previous versions.
Have added all the available "Tools" to my Tool Panel and have tried Adobe's not so helpful online help. I'm fairly new to Acrobat -- can anyone point me in the right direction?
Would buy Acrobat 9, but not showing as option on Adobe products anymore.
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Some links look clickable but don't work - Word 2010 with Acrobat PDF creation

Windows 7
Latest Acrobat subscription
Word - Office home and student 2010
I can create PDFs via Acrobat and Word on Windows 7, but after editing the PDF with Acrobat on Mavericks OS X, only in-document links remain clickable. External web hyperlinks, both exposed URLs and blue text with URLs hidden under link text do not work in the PDFs that are edited on MacOS. They look like they work, because in the PDFs the hand cursor appears and you can click the links, but nothing happens in the browser.
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Afterward, only some kinds of links in the PDF work.
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Q: Is this a known limitation that MacOS Acrobat creates unusable links despite the initial PDF conversion being done on Windows Acrobat?
Q: Should I do something additional so that external links remain clickable after processing on MacOs?
Thanks for any clues.

Thanks for your reply.
After some experimentation, it seems that the place where *some* links stop working is when I take a PDF file from Windows and optimize it on MacOS with Mac Acrobat Pro. All the links work *except* the kind where the URL is hidden behind blue underlined text. These look like they work but when you click them nothing happens.
So to fix it, I think I need to optimize the PDFs on Windows Acrobat Pro.
The MacOs Acrobat Pro, which I paid many hundreds of dollars for is therefore completely useless for documents with this kind of normal hypertext link.
Also, Windows Acrobat Pro is required in order to ensure that table-of-contents links made in Word (MacOS) continue to work in the PDF. The trick there is to regenerate the TOC on Windows Word before using CreatePDF to convert it.
I hope someone else benefits from this insight, because I wasted weeks of my life trying to troubleshoot this undocumented problem.

Why does PDF Optimizer no longer reduce size after CS4 upgrade?

I've been able to successfully reduce the size of the PDFs created from my Illustrator files for years using Advanced> PDF Optimizer in Acrobat Pro. Upgraded to CS4 last week. Now it seems to have reduced everything, but the files are still huge. When I check Space Audit 96% or more is taken up by "piece information".
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From: Riannosda <[email protected]>
Reply-To: <[email protected]>
Date: Wed, 22 Jul 2009 07:06:34 -0600
To: Pamela Myhre <[email protected]>
Subject: Why does PDF Optimizer no longer reduce size
after CS4 upgrade?
Hi, I've found the solution because today it happened to me as well.
Just go to "PDF Optimizer", then click to "Discard user data" and finally to
"Discard private data from other applications": in this way you delete any
information left by Illustrator and your file's size will get reduced.
It works.
Good luckThanks so much! That works like a charm!!
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Optimize PDF to a specific maximum size

I also posted this in the feature request forum.
I would like to be able to optimize PDFs of various sizes to a size small enough to email. I would like the images to be automatically down sampled only as much as needed to reduce the final PDF to a specified size. Perhaps a script or plug-in exists?

I've never heard of such a plug-in or script. It wouldn't be easy to develop because it would require explicit knowledge of all the things which can make a file large. Images would be easy to calculate but file overhead, and other things are much more difficult.
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I'm trying to find a way to script the PDF optimizer in Acrobat Pro 9 (Win), so it is invoked from JavaScript with the name (or path, whatever) of a profile to use when optimizing.
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Thanks for confirming that.
It's such an obvious use case that I guess Adobe must not want Acrobat Pro being used where Acrobat Server could be sold. Oh well. I'd use multivalent or pdftk, but neither offer image re-sampling or attachment stripping at the moment.
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Playing flv files in Adobe Reader 7

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Your experience is better, than mine. I look after a website for a Electronics Servicing organization. I've created many PDF using Acrobat 3 - 7.0.7 (the older versions on OS9. I use OSX.3.9 on a G4-500 using 1.5 Gb of System RAM. And I uses OSX.4.5 on a PowerBook 17" using 2 GB of system RAM. Since switch to Acrobat 6 and then 7 I've never been able to have anyone view a PDF created in 6 or 7 Format. The File appears to be there and the file fize indicates it has content. Whether viewing on a PC or a Mac. If viewed on a PC all that is seen is a Blank page with no text, and if it had a graphic no graphic is shown. If however; the person on the other end happens to have Acrobat or Reader 6 they can view the Acrobat 6 Files. And If they have 7 they can see the 6 and 7 files as well as anything below. However; most of the PC viewers I deal with still use Acrobat or Reader 5. Its these viewers I find that can't view the files. I've noticed also that when you do getinfo on a Acro/Reader, or 7 File created on my computer that in the thumbnail preview, all you see is the Acrobat A symbol, or a Blank thumbnail. Opening in 7 they can be viewed. Opening in 5 (I still have a OS9 Drive and e.5.0.5 installed) all I get is a Blank page no text and no Graphics if any in the content. SO every since 6 and 7 have come out I've had to save, then optimize for Acrobat 5 in order for my readers to see the pdf's.

Adobe 5.0 PDF cannot be read in Adobe Reader 7.0

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Your experience is better, than mine. I look after a website for a Electronics Servicing organization. I've created many PDF using Acrobat 3 - 7.0.7 (the older versions on OS9. I use OSX.3.9 on a G4-500 using 1.5 Gb of System RAM. And I uses OSX.4.5 on a PowerBook 17" using 2 GB of system RAM. Since switch to Acrobat 6 and then 7 I've never been able to have anyone view a PDF created in 6 or 7 Format. The File appears to be there and the file fize indicates it has content. Whether viewing on a PC or a Mac. If viewed on a PC all that is seen is a Blank page with no text, and if it had a graphic no graphic is shown. If however; the person on the other end happens to have Acrobat or Reader 6 they can view the Acrobat 6 Files. And If they have 7 they can see the 6 and 7 files as well as anything below. However; most of the PC viewers I deal with still use Acrobat or Reader 5. Its these viewers I find that can't view the files. I've noticed also that when you do getinfo on a Acro/Reader, or 7 File created on my computer that in the thumbnail preview, all you see is the Acrobat A symbol, or a Blank thumbnail. Opening in 7 they can be viewed. Opening in 5 (I still have a OS9 Drive and e.5.0.5 installed) all I get is a Blank page no text and no Graphics if any in the content. SO every since 6 and 7 have come out I've had to save, then optimize for Acrobat 5 in order for my readers to see the pdf's.

Frame7.1 wont import Photoshop CS5.1 .jpg file

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Anyone have any ideas on how to import CS5.1 images using
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AG: IIRC, the FM7.1 JPG filter only reads the older JFIF header format JPG files, while the CS5 Photoshop and many other applications write EXIF headers in the JPG (yes , the standard evolved).
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The Wiki page for JPEG, btw, is presently vandalized:
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Your experience is better, than mine. I look after a website for a Electronics Servicing organization. I've created many PDF using Acrobat 3 - 7.0.7 (the older versions on OS9. I use OSX.3.9 on a G4-500 using 1.5 Gb of System RAM. And I uses OSX.4.5 on a PowerBook 17" using 2 GB of system RAM. Since switch to Acrobat 6 and then 7 I've never been able to have anyone view a PDF created in 6 or 7 Format. The File appears to be there and the file fize indicates it has content. Whether viewing on a PC or a Mac. If viewed on a PC all that is seen is a Blank page with no text, and if it had a graphic no graphic is shown. If however; the person on the other end happens to have Acrobat or Reader 6 they can view the Acrobat 6 Files. And If they have 7 they can see the 6 and 7 files as well as anything below. However; most of the PC viewers I deal with still use Acrobat or Reader 5. Its these viewers I find that can't view the files. I've noticed also that when you do getinfo on a Acro/Reader, or 7 File created on my computer that in the thumbnail preview, all you see is the Acrobat A symbol, or a Blank thumbnail. Opening in 7 they can be viewed. Opening in 5 (I still have a OS9 Drive and e.5.0.5 installed) all I get is a Blank page no text and no Graphics if any in the content. SO every since 6 and 7 have come out I've had to save, then optimize for Acrobat 5 in order for my readers to see the pdf's.

Disable Preferences in Adobe Reader 7

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