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October 9, 2025
Question

Why do some PDFs become larger after compressing in Adobe Acrobat?

  • October 9, 2025
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Hey,

I tried using “Reduce File Size” in Acrobat, but for some reason, a few of my PDFs actually ended up bigger instead of smaller.

Am I missing a setting, or is this normal depending on the file type (like scanned vs digital PDFs)?

Would love to understand why that happens.

1 reply

try67
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Community Expert
October 9, 2025

Very hard to say without seeing an actual file, before and after you ran the command on it.