PDDocSaveWithParams vs Acrobat Save As Optimized PDF

All,
I've been wrestling with this for a couple of days.  I've been using the PDE api to make some changes to documents, and I noticed that certain documents were causing problems when the PDEContent was set back into the page.  After doing some research, I noticed that the Acrobat SDK was throwing an exception when PDPageSetPDEContent was called.  All of these documents shared a certain structure, and after running Acrobat's Save as Optimized PDF, the problem vanishes as the problem structures are recombined into a different one.  Does anyone know of an Acrobat API call that gives similar functionality?
Joe

PDDocSaveAsOptimized, I believe it is (or maybe its an AVDoc…)
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Date: Fri, 23 Sep 2011 08:29:28 -0700
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Subject: PDDocSaveWithParams vs Acrobat Save As Optimized PDF
PDDocSaveWithParams vs Acrobat Save As Optimized PDF
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