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February 28, 2021
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PDF compression settings

  • February 28, 2021
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In Adobe Acrobat DC (Cloud 2021) which preferences should I change to change the compression level of the pdf? I notice that when I open a 100Mb pdf, when I save it, even without making any changes, the pdf becomes smaller. While this is good, I'm interested in understanding where the compression parameters I can change are.

 

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Legend
February 28, 2021

An ordinary SAVE AS does not compress, but it may be able to reduce space by, for example, discovering a duplicate background on each page. 

JR Boulay
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February 28, 2021

They are here:

 

 

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mrc12Author
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February 28, 2021

Thank you. Changing these settings and saving the file I see that the dimensions remain unchanged.

But if I execute a "Recognize Text" (Settings: Searchable Image Exact) on the file and then save with Cmd-S, the file is saved with a reduced size...

Legend
February 28, 2021

Recognise text is going to read and replace all the images. It will do some kind of compression on them. This is already finished before the Save gets there. 

Bernd Alheit
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Community Expert
February 28, 2021

How does you save the document?

mrc12Author
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February 28, 2021

I save it with Cmd-S