Pdf's have got me down and are sitting on my chest...

hi all.
i am about a year and a half into porting to mac and between my HP 8500 scanner (are the buttons on the machine supposed to work on this thing?!) and printing to PDF I am getting hammered.
when I scan a simple 2 page document i end up with two images that are - i think png - and roughly 10 MB in size. i am scanning in color as a default and used to have 200 dpi set. seems reasonable.
when i print these two pages to pdf is there a way to get a document that is less than 20 +/- MB? this is huge and won't go through email. can i do this in the settings somehow in Preview??
also, i have put the color sync icon on my dock but sometimes i don't get this to work very well. do i need to open the document in colorsync and then change each and every page? is there something to do other than running Reduce File Size? also, somehow changing a doc to greyscale from color totally rasterizes it and i can't read it? should i change the default settings??
i'd really love to print to pdf without getting a munga file and i'd love to reduce the file sizes of the 10 page 100 MB or 20 page 200 MB files that are scattered all over my HD at the moment.
thanks for any help.

okay, hotwheels, let me see if I can help you....
firstly, the buttons on your scanner may work, try looking for an update at hp's website (twainsane may work, but it's not free). I managed to get an old HP scanner working in 10.6, and it had a usb, parallel and scsi port on it, that's how old it was, yet it still worked okay. secondly, try looking for a piece of software called combinePDF. as far as I know, when you use something like iPhoto and convert it to a .pdf, it'll probably end up around 20 megs or so. As for documents, try using Preview or Image Tricks for changing the color on a document. AKAIK, ColorSync is for adjusting your monitors picture, and how the colors are displayed therein. Try scanning to .png, or .jpg or something else. pdf is too darn big to go through email, I dunno what you are trying to scan and what you are trying to get out of it (text file, document, picture). I saw something called pdf ocr, that might be helpful for you..(solutions.weblite.ca/pdfocrx/ other than that, some kinda commercial software might be more up your alley.... or PDF Lab (dunno where to get that one, though)
I used to use Adobe Distiller, so that shows you how old I am, Iguess
well, it's something
John B

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