Resizing an indesign file to export a smaller pdf

Please help! I have created a 120 page catologue in indesign. There are numerous photos linked to the file and the file is huge. I'm trying to export a pdf small enough to download off of a website. Right now the pdf is taking too long to download off the website, therefore I have to decrease the size of the file. Besides decreasing the size of individual photos and re-exporting a pdf, is there a quick fix here? I have tried resizing the catalogue to make it a few inches smaller but this makes the page smaller and not the content. Just want to know if there's a simple solution before I have to spend hours on this. Thanks.

Decreasing the size of the photos in inches will not help and will just waste a lot of time. You need to export the file with fewer pixels in the photos and more compression. Try lowering the resolution in the Compression panel when you export the PDF and trying different compression settings. Be sure to lower the “for images above” setting, too.
But a 120 page catalogue with photos will never be all that small without making the photos look like a close up of a Lego model. This might be an impossible request. If your job is to make this file smaller than a certain size, let us know that size.

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