acrobat and distiller

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April 14, 2026
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Hello,

I would like that in acrobat, when I do “save as” / “PDF with reduced file size”, acrobat could save it using distiller with the minimal file size. How to do it ?

Because actually I am obliged to save my PDF in postcript, then open distiller and choose “minimal file size”.

Correct answer Karl Heinz Kremer

In Adobe Acrobat Pro, you will find it as “File>Save As Other>Optimized PDF”

Karl Heinz Kremer

Community Expert

Using Distiller to reduce the size of a PDF is a bad idea. “Refrying” a PDF (as we call printing and distilling a PDF to another PDF) will also destroy other information in your PDF file because those features don’t have an equivalent in PostScript.
To preserve your PDF, it’s much better to come up with settings for the PDF optimizer that will give you the size you want.