When I resave a PDF it becomes huge.

I have a PDF that is approximately 1700 pages long. Somehow it is only about 215MB in it's current state. Unfortunately, I need to file this with an entity that accepts ONLY 7MB chunks at a time. I tried two different things with strange results:
1. I resaved the PDF to my desktop so I could work with it, without damaging the original. When I resaved the PDF it ballooned to about 4.5GB of data.
2. I also attempt to extract some 200-page chunks from the PDF and, again, it ballooned to a huge amount of data.
I am very confused about that I did and how to resave it in smaller pieces, without this happening (additionally I will need to add title pages and some other pages to each 7MB chunk that I create, so I am at a loss of how to do this -- but I know that I cannot end up filing something like 400 chunks -- I already was going to have problems with filing the 30-something I currently have).

Hi,
Which version of Acrobat are you using?
If you're using Acrobat Pro XI, select File>Save as Other>Reduced Size PDF... and tweak the settings. Earlier versions of Acrobat had a menu sub-item 'Reduce File Size...' that enables you to create an optimized, reduced file.
If the files you're sending are being used for print, can you send your file via a service like WeTransfer to your client?

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