Preserving Text When Saving As a Reduced Size PDF

[celulloyd]

I have to create 300dpi PDFs for printing a catalog. I then have to use those PDFs to review the catalog for the next year's version. The original PDF file size is approximately 250MBs but I want to reduce the file size significantly for the review copy. When I Save As Other > Reduced Size PDF, the entire PDF gets flattened, which make sit impossible to highlight text. Is there a way to reduce the file size but keep the text as text?

I hope that makes sense. I'm using Acrobat DC Pro on a Mac running Yosemite. I'm creating the original PDFs from InDesign CC 2014.

Thank you.

[Bernd Alheit]

Try the optimizer.

[celulloyd]

Thanks Bernd. I think I figured out that when I redact the PDF (because I delete the registration marks, trim marks, etc.), it also flattens the fonts during the process. Do you know how to redact the PDF without flattening the fonts?

[Bernd Alheit]

celulloyd wrote:

... Do you know how to redact the PDF without flattening the fonts?

What does you mean? The redaction tool doesn't flatten fonts.

[celulloyd]

HHHHMMMM, then something else must be happening. I've tried creating lower-resolution PDFs a few different ways now and every time I redact after I crop, the text becomes flattened. What I did to get around that is crop but then I don't redact. That keeps the text as fonts.

Thank you again. 

[Bernd Alheit]

What did you redact? When you redact part of text characters the rest of the characters will be converted to raster images or vector graphic.

[celulloyd]

I cropped out the page bleed and then removed the hidden information.