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Changing a pdf file size?

  • April 8, 2013
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Hi - I am fairly new to Adobe, so please forgive my ignorance! I have created some pdf files from a batch of scanned documents, which I now want to email. I forgot to scan them as B&W and now the pdfs are colour, they are too big to email (28MB). Is there a way I can change them to B&W or reduce the filesize to an acceptable email size limit? Really appreciate any help as I have to get these out tonight... Thanks

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    Correct answer Mandeep5062

    Hi Working-mum

    if You are using Acrobat X then,

    choose "File > Save As > Optimized PDF...", as opposed to "File > Save As > Reduced Size PDF...".

    If you're using Acrobat XI then see the below link and Scroll to Reduce size article.

    http://help.adobe.com/en_US/acrobat/using/WSFCDFBF6D-795A-4364-BA93-BB157AAD53ED.w.html


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    Mandeep5062
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    April 9, 2013

    Hi Working-mum

    if You are using Acrobat X then,

    choose "File > Save As > Optimized PDF...", as opposed to "File > Save As > Reduced Size PDF...".

    If you're using Acrobat XI then see the below link and Scroll to Reduce size article.

    http://help.adobe.com/en_US/acrobat/using/WSFCDFBF6D-795A-4364-BA93-BB157AAD53ED.w.html