Reduce file size not working

I have Adobe Acrobat 7 Professional. I scanned an 868 page text only document using two different professional scanners at my work, Xerox Docucolor and Canon DR-6030 Scanner.
The scanned settings were 300 dpi, black and white, duplex. No photos, not even line art.
1. The result was a 32 mb file. I don't know why it's so big. It should be no more than 4-6 mb.
2. Furthermore, the file size remained unchanged after I used the reduce file size command.
I am baffled, any help would be appreciated.
Thank you.

Try the PDF Optimizer. You could also try a ClearScan OCR. If you did OCR, but did not do ClearScan, then you are simply looking at pictures of your scan. The ClearScan will replace photos of text with actual text and a text file. You have left a lot out of what you have done in the scan. Also, scanners or the translations often give you a 24-bit graphic file even if it is really only B&W. Often the best results for OCR are gotten from a Gray Scale form in my experience. So, the structure of your PDF may be the issue. The PDF Optimizer also has an audit feature to show where most of the memory is being used.

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Undo reduce file size

Worked up documents on Pages with multiple photos, some at high resolutions. Reduced file size for emailing and sending to dropbox and now want to print in an 18" x 24" size. Sample print is very blurrry How do I undo reduce file size? Would exporting file via pdf (best file quality) help? Any other suggestions. Much aprreciated.

Hi Trudy,
Reducing file size works by reducing the file size of any high resolution images to 72 dpi, OK for on screen use, but quite pixelated if printed or enlarged. Here's an example:
Here's the original—This is a detail, enlarged to 400% on the screen, but reduced by the discussions software to fit on this page. Note the spider web below the frog.
Here's the warning you get when you choose Reduce File Size:
Note that it says it "replaces" the original versions of the images. Scarey thought, but not as permanent as it appears.
Here's the result:
The frog's snout is quite pixillated, and the web has almost disappeared, as has much of the texture of the frog's skin and of the rough-sawn cedar siding behind. Again, a 400% enlargement on the screen, with the reduction imposed by the discussions software.
If you act at this point, it is possible to undo the change—throwing out the edited image and replacing it with the original version. The option appears to remain available even after the document is Saved, but disappears when it has been Closed. That would make sense, as Saving both the reduced image and the full version would not result in a reduction in file size.
But there's one other factor: When you drop an image onto a placeholder in Pages, the image that is inserted is a COPY of the original image file. The editing referred to above is done with that copy, not with the original image file, which continues to exist, unchanged where it was before being inserted.
To get the hi-res version back, then is a matter of dropping the original file onto the placeholder again.
Seems to work.
Regards,
Barry

Adobe Acrobat Pro XI 11.0.06 when I reduce file size or try to optimize, I get this error: The document could not be saved. A number is out of range. I do the exact same thing every month and it works. I did it a few days ago and it worked. I receated the

Adobe Acrobat Pro XI 11.0.06 when I reduce file size or try to optimize, I get this error: The document could not be saved. A number is out of range. I do the exact same thing every month and it works. I did it a few days ago and it worked. I receated the pdf, I renamed it. tried to do it before I imported more pages. no go. the 16 mg pdf will normally reduce to 5 or 6

Hi,
Are you facing the issue with any pdf file?
Please try updating Acrobat to 11.0.7 and check.
You might also want to repair Acrobat and see.
Regards,
Rave

Reduce File Size doesn't work!

When I click the (new) option 'Reduce File Size' in Keynote '09 the app prompts a estimated new size which is smaller than the current size. When I click on 'Reduce' the app doesn't do anything except for showing an error report which tells me something like: "..the file size was not reduced", for all of the files included. They are just regular .jpg/.png and .psd files. Did anyone else notice this bug..?

PeterBreis0807 wrote:
I'd say if it is a very large file with multiple large images, it might not be actually freezing, just taking its sweet time.
It's why I leave Activity Monitor running when I use iWork applications.
This way, I know ifd the app is dead or if it's heavily busy.
Either that or it has nothing to do. It trims and reduces the resolution of bitmap images to 72dpi. There will be a fair bit of work if you have transparency in the document.
It doesn't do a very good job IMHO and to reduce the file by 90% is a big ask.
The 'Reduce FileSize' feature isn't linked to the 'export to PDF' feature.
As explained, before applying "Reduce file size" it's good practice to "Reduce Image File Size".
This will drop the parts of the pictures which aren't displayed.
The asked task doesn't imply a reduction of the pictures by 90%.
As I already wrote several times, it's more efficient to crop images to the really used area *_before inserting them in a Pages document_*.
A Pages document is huge by nature because the Index.xml file describing its contents is highly verbose.
If the document was saved with the 'embed Preview.pdf' feature active, the size of this PDF is adding a lot of used space.
I'd print to pdf and reduce the quality in Acrobat Pro.
Most of us don't own Acrobat Pro.
I feel that it would be a bit silly to buy an application whose price is : 450$ as a complement for a 80$ set of applications.
Before doing that, I would
(a) crop pictures before inserting them
(b) try to enhance Pages behaviour for free installing enhanced PDF filters.
Yvan KOENIG (VALLAURIS, France) dimanche 29 août 2010 09:53:44

Save As Does NOT Reduce File Size

I have tried everything to reduce the file size of my Adobe Acrobat Pro X Form with Save As (Reduce File Size, As Optimized, etc...). Unfortunately, the file size does not reduce. I send to a friend who has Acrobat 9 and he is able to reduce the file from 45mb to 182kb...what gives? He sent my original file to his co-worker who has Acrobat Pro X and he has the same issue that I do. This appears to be a version issue. Any help would be appreciated as I have about 150 of these that I need to get down to a reasonable file size.

Actually, I found something else. It's very curious.
The form fields themselves are OK, and there is only one tiny copy of CopperPlate Light.
There is a place in a PDF where there is supposed to be a copy of each font used a form field. This lists (presumably) every font you own and then some - over 500 fonts, all embedded. This is clearly not what you wanted and not what the software should do.
It would be interesting to know the life cycle of this form (by which I mean how it was born and what happened along the way). It was made with Acrobat 10 from Word, but that (presumably) didn't do the bad thing. Can you remember what happened to the file in the mean time? Was it only EVER edited in Acrobat X, or were any other utilities used on it - even if they didn't seem to be related to form fields at all? Do you have any old copies before it grew in size?

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I have been trying to reduce the size of a PDF, using the Save As > Optimized PDF method.
I have also tried Save As > Reduced Size PDF.
This is on a file made up of 20 pages of full page Jpegs. (These were generated by the script in Photoshop that generates Jpeg files from Layer Comps within the document.)
If I use Reduced Size PDF, I get a greatly reduced file size but the image quality suffers greatly. (Lots of artifacts and blurryness)
There are no options to choose the level of compression I want.
If I use Optimized PDF method, I cant seem to reduce the file size no matter what I set the Jpeg compression to.
Is there some way to cut the size of the file down but not lose so much image quality?
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Part of the problem here is that the files that are produced when I run the script to output files from layer comps are very big.
If I "save for web" for each layer comp, I wind up with way smaller Jpegs. Thus a much smaller PDF.
So the question is: Can you make the script, Layer Comps to Files, create smaller more optimized Jpegs? (Like you get when you save for web)

I want to reduce pdf size up to 5mb for mailing perpose, anybody have any option to reduce it since I have used optimiser & reduce file size option but its not helpfull.

I want to reduce pdf size up to 5mb for mailing perpose, anybody have any option to reduce it since I have used optimizer & reduce file size option but its not helpful.

The optimizer can reduce space, but some things can't get smaller. Text for example. Play with the settings, examine the results of Audit Space Usage.
Or give up. Even 5 MB is too large for a bulk mailing, by far. Instead put it on your web site and mail a link - done!

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RMAN-00571: ===========================================================
RMAN-00569: =============== ERROR MESSAGE STACK FOLLOWS ===============
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Hi,
First get the backup piece size its trying to allocate for file "/home/oracle/DBBACKUP/Oracle10g1/Full_Backup/DB_Backup_201401128366598241"
= 12839996*16384
= 210370494464/1024/1024/1024
=195.9GB
Its trying to allocate ~196GB for the file.
1. Make sure the RMAN backup piece won’t exceed the O/S permitted filesize limit.
2. But we can restrict the RMAN backup piece using the MAXPIECESIZE option.
You restricted it to 120GB but actual requirement to allocate backup piece file is ~196GB.
I think you need to change the MAXPIECESIZE and give it a try.
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You have posted your question in a forum dedicated to the Final Cut Studio application Color. It is a very specialized program to grade (adjust) the color in video/film images. We know nothing regarding PDFs.
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x

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geekinthegarden wrote:
Generally reduce file size works great...
Microsoft Publisher...Ghostscript...PScript5.dll
I seem to be able to open and reduce file size using Acrobat so I'm not quite sure why Preview is choking on them.
Hi geekinthegarden- This does not surprise me. There are many variations and reiterations in specifications of the PDF format.
Going from Ghostscript language interpreter, to Apple in rendering could introduce complications which we will not be able to sort out in this forum encapsulating a complete description of a fixed-layout 2D documents that includes the text, fonts, images, and 2D vector graphics which compose the documents.
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Print PDF has a compress PDF file option as well as ColorSynch in your /Utilities folder +reduce file size+ option for PDF's. This may or may not be of use.
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