Resizing PDF's

I have many large (8 to 200 Meg) file size pdf's made up of images I need to make website links to. I can use them as is, but ended up buying Acrobat X Standard to help me make them smaller and more quickly accessible. I used Acrobat X to extract (export) the images from the pdf into a folder, I used software I have to batch resize the images to a smaller size, then I used Acrobat X to combine the resized images into a (much smaller) Fast Web View pdf again. When starting the combine process, I get an error stating "error (file skipped)" for all the converted images, so I don't get a combined pdf. If I use some freeware I got to extract the images from the pdf, batch resize (same way I did for Acrobat extracted images), Acrobat X lets me combine those without the error. Why can't I do all of this from Acrobat?
Thank you for a response.

It might be possible to deal with it all within Acrobat, but a lot depends on your settings. One approach is to start with the PDF Optimze option in FILE>Save As. You can set the resolution of graphics and such. Another way, though not generally recommended is to simply print the PDF to a new PDF an select a different page size and set the resolution you desire in the job settings. You can change the page size in the printer properties and then print to fit page or expand to fit, etc.
To extract the images, that can be done from the tools or advanced menu (another one of those features they move around). It saves each image with the file name, page number, and image number on the page. You could then use PhotoShop to resize or a product like IrfanView (free), though I am not sure about the batch process.
For a really large job, the print process is probably the fastest, though not necessarily the cleanest.

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H
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http://www.apple.com/applescript/imageevents/
http://www.apple.com/applescript/imageevents/04.html
http://www.apple.com/applescript/imageevents/08.html
png2pdf
http://png2pdf.sourceforge.net/
http://png2pdf.sourceforge.net/png2pdf.pdf
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