Reduce smartform generated PDF size

Hi,
How to reduce the smartform generated PDF size. I have tried removing few tables,windows, logo(size 10KB) etc.. but the size didnt vary much. I am using new Font 'CorpoS' in my smartstyle and using PT language (has special characters).
Current size of my PDF is 286KB and i want it to be 20-50KB.
Please give me valuable suggestions on how to reduce the size.
Please treat this as urgent.
Thanks in advance.
Regards,
Manjeera.
Edited by: Manjeera Chinigiri on Jan 30, 2008 11:02 AM

Hello,
please check the note 843480.
Kind regards
Marcin

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     t_packing_list   TYPE sopcklsti1,
     t_attachment     TYPE solisti1,
     t_body_msg       TYPE solisti1,
     t_receivers      TYPE somlreci1,
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     w_document_data TYPE t_document_data,
     w_packing_list   TYPE t_packing_list,
     w_attachment     TYPE t_attachment,
     w_body_msg       TYPE t_body_msg,
     w_receivers      TYPE t_receivers,
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     i_packing_list   TYPE STANDARD TABLE OF t_packing_list,
     i_attachment     TYPE STANDARD TABLE OF t_attachment,
     i_body_msg       TYPE STANDARD TABLE OF t_body_msg,
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rp-provide-from-last p0002 space pn-begda pn-endda.
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Download the File
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..................................DOWNLOAD AS FILE....................
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access_denied = 15
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disk_full = 17
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file_not_found = 19
dataprovider_exception = 20
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Both Acrobat Standard and Professional include a menu item (File, Reduce File Size) for reducing the file size of the current document. Professional includes additional new optimization tools.
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Difference in generated PDF file size between distiller 6.0 and 10.0

Hi,
we are currently using Distiller server 6.0.1 on Windows server 2003 to convert PS to PDF, we want to upgrade our operating system to Windows server 2008 R2 but distiller server is not supported on this,
so we are evaluating Acrobat distiller 10 which comes along with Acrobat pro x but we noticed some slight difference in the generated PDF file size, for the same PS the distiller server 6.0 generated PDF
file size of 55 KB whereas Acrobat distiller 10 generated PDF file is 53 KB. The output looks same but wondering whether is it safe to continue further with the file size difference, it would be good
if you could provide some insight into why the file sizes are different between these two versions.
Thanks,
Anand

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Reduce PDF size by flattening InDesign file??

i have a 68 page catalog design in InDesign. i export as PDF/X-1a:2001 for printing. it comes out as 96MB and the printers site wont accept it. so they are telling me to flatten the images and layers in the PDF. I thought that type of PDF already does flatten everything so im not sure what they are talking about. Another project i worked on the transparencys were not coming through right to the printer, they also asked me to flatten the transparencies. but that i did in photoshop before bringing it into InDesign. This catalog file im on now... there are a ton of images and it wont take forever to flatten every image and re-place in InDesign. is there a better option to reduce the PDF size but still keep high quality for print? Thank you.

There are several different, and contradictory, meanings of "flatten" so it's on order to ask exactly what kind of flattening they want and what tools to do it with.
One meaning of "flattening" is to flatten transparency, turning it into images or composite shapes.
Now
1. This sort of flattening almost always makes things bigger, not smaller - if there is transparency in the first place.
2. When you save as PDF/X1-a or PDF/X-3 it will always be flattened; that's the rules.
3. So the choice of PDF/X-1a forces flattening and often makes files much bigger.
Do the printer require PDF/X-1a?

Reducing .pdf size with InDesign

Good morning everyone!
I have downloaded the trial version of InDesign to see if its the right tool to a very specific problem we are having in our engineering office and I have never used InDesign before.
I need to dramatically reduce the overall file size of multi-page PDFs for underlaying in AutoCAD while retaining the detail from the original. The PDF files we recevied from our client are rather large and underlaying them "as is" brings AutoCAD to a crawl. I have been able to shrink the files appropriately in Illustrator but I would have to do it one page at a time to be able to reduce the file size which does not solve our time problem (I have one project in the pipeline that is going to require 200 pages). JPEG's kind of work which I can do in batches in Illustrator, but AutoCAD does not have automation for underlaying JPEGs. Keeping the PDF in vector fomat is the ideal solution if we can get the file size down.
So far I have opened illustrator and tried to run the script for adding a multi-page PDF and what I bring in retains absolutely no detail from the PDF.
So two questions:
1) Can/How do I bring in a PDF drawing so it retains the vector detail, and
2) Can I use Illustrator to shrink down the file size of a multi-page PDF (Adobe pro doesn't bring it down far enough)
I know this is nowhere near the purpose of InDesign, but its our last avenue to solve our underlay issue in a way where everyone might win.
Thank you!

You have to check where is highest amount of space used in the pdf? Are these images or structures you need or you don't need? Is it a profile? Use the audit function in the Acrobat Pro Optimizer dialog.
When you know which part of the content of the pdf could be dismissed you can set up a properly pdf export setting or use a different export functionality to create pdfs like the export of interactive pdfs which will output smller pdfs.

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