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HarukaJapan
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November 16, 2018
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Is it possible to downsize or to divide a PDF document?

  • November 16, 2018
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I use Adobe Acrobat Reader DC (Japanese Version - 2019.008.20081) at a firm in Japan.

Asking point-blank: Is it possible to downsize or to divide a PDF file?

I'd like to know if I can downsize large-volume PDF after scanning or creating. If not, how about dividing a PDF document to plural documents?

I asked because:

I scanned a more-than-300-page printed document to convert into PDF,  to attach to email according to our customer's request. The document has some minute / fine figures and tables. Therefore it is needed to scan at a high resolution, and its size was calculated approximately 250MB.

Of course I couldn't attach to my email (I should have considered how large the PDF size should be before scanning...How ridiculous!).

After all, I re-scanned the large-volume documents, after manually dividing it to some...

Best regards,

Haruka

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Adobe make paid-for software that can do this, called Acrobat Pro and Acrobat Standard. The free Acrobat Reader cannot do this.

However, large files are normal. Most qualuty PDFs for printing are too large to email even one page. So other ways are used to send them. DropBox is popular, even Document Cloud from Adobe allows a link to be shared. But most simple is to use a service like http://wetransfer.com. This arrives as a simple email, with a link to download the big file. It is likely this would meet the customer request happily.

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Bernd Alheit
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Bernd AlheitCommunity Expert
Community Expert
November 16, 2018

Possible with Adobe Acrobat, not Acrobat Reader.

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Legend
November 16, 2018

Adobe make paid-for software that can do this, called Acrobat Pro and Acrobat Standard. The free Acrobat Reader cannot do this.

However, large files are normal. Most qualuty PDFs for printing are too large to email even one page. So other ways are used to send them. DropBox is popular, even Document Cloud from Adobe allows a link to be shared. But most simple is to use a service like http://wetransfer.com. This arrives as a simple email, with a link to download the big file. It is likely this would meet the customer request happily.

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HarukaJapanAuthor
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November 19, 2018

Hi Bernd,

Thank you for your support.

I use this software in my office and can't ask my colleagues / seniors to pay for software. I try on my own PC.

Best regards,

Haruka

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