Optimizing PDFs

[jayk54905290]

I am running through optimizing my PDFs.  I am seeing a good compression and am quite happy.

My question:

I have a ton of folders with various files in them.  PDFs, Doc, Msg etc.

Can I run a batch Optimizing on all the folders but only target the PDFs?  I have far to many files in there to separate out just the PDFs

[try67]

If you're using Acrobat XI or higher then no, you can't do it, unfortunately. It used to be possible, but this feature was removed in the XI version...

[jayk54905290]

cr@p....I am using XI pro....do you know of any 3rd party options?

[try67]

For optimizing PDF files? No, sorry.

[jayk54905290]

Actually found that you CAN optimize with XI.....

Using Create New Action > Save (FInd PDF Optimizer and set the settings)

BUT CANNOT specify just the PDFs

[jayk54905290]

Wonder if I can add some JavaScript to just Batch Optimize PDFs????  Thoughts?  The Save/Optimize does what I need....just gets confused when there is another format in there (msg, doc etc)

[try67 · Accepted solution]

Of course you can optimize with Acrobat XI... The issue is you can't do it in batch and tell it not to process non-PDF files. That you can do with third-party tools, but I'm not sure you can use them to optimize files. You'll need to research it.

And no, you can't optimize a file using JS.