Reducing size of PDF in Acrobat 9Pro

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April 5, 2017
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All of a sudden it is impossible to reduce the size of PDF's in Acrobat 9 Pro (version 9.5.5). What can I do to have Acrobat Pro do this again? Everything else is working o.k. Thanks

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JR Boulay

Community Expert

Hi.

- As George said, there is something wrong in your process. The PDF must be optimized directly from InDesign, not with Acrobat.

- Sending a PDF via email is an old school process, we are living in the Cloud age now: Acrobat : File menu : Send File : Send & Track

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Acrobate du PDF, InDesigner et Photoshopographe

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hans48949047Author

Participant

JR. Thanks for your help. But do you mean I have to go (in InDesign) to File>Presettings Adobe PDF> & then choose what form I want (highest quality/smallest file size, or the settings my printer has given me etc.)?

And ha! Yes I'm a bit old school I suppose.

And thank you Test Screen Name: the Advanced> PDF Optimizer option works as well.

JR Boulay

Community Expert

Yes.

Acrobate du PDF, InDesigner et Photoshopographe

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George_Johnson

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What are the exact steps you perform and what do you mean by "it is impossible"?, exactly? Is it that the file size simply isn't reduced, or that you are not able to performs the same steps as before? Does this happen with all documents or just certain ones? Certain documents with certain types of content can't be reduced, depending on the options you select.

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hans48949047Author

Participant

Thanks George. NO, when I make a PDF from an InDesign file, everything works just fine. But when I try to reduce the size of this PDF (in order to mail it) I can click the option 'reduce file size', I'm asked to give a (new) name, click ok, but nothing happens. It worked before, but not anymore. By the way: it's a big file (over 350 mb).

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George_Johnson

Inspiring

It's really hard to say what could be wrong and I don't have any suggestions for you to try with Acrobat 9, but you might consider exporting to PDF from InDesign using different export options that will result in a smaller file. The biggest reductions are typically with compressing/downsampling images.

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