Creating Smaller Sized PDFs from FM10

[stoutrunna]

Hello,

I have Tech Comm Suite 3 (FM10, Acrobat X) and using Windows XP. Can I create a PDF out of FM and have it open in Acrobat 7 and later? I know I can manually select that in Acrobat after the document is created (Save As-->Reduced File Size), but I want to do it in FM. Having it open in Acrobat 7 and later dramatically reduces the file size of some PDFs.

I know that I can change the compatibility to any Acrobat by going through the printing setting (Print Setup-->Adobe PDF Properties-->Edit Default Settings-->Compatibility), but selecting Acrobat 7.0 (or Acrobat 8.0) doesn't seem to make it the same PDF file size like manually doing it in Acrobat. I have changed the Standard setting to try and open in Acrobat 7 and Later.

Does anyone have any clues on how I can get it to actually change the print setting?

Thanks,

Scott

[mandrill22]

Open Acrobat Distiller X (which is where your PostScript file generated by FM10 will be routed when you use the 'Save as PDF' function) and edit your settings (compatibility, compression etc.) to suit your requirements.

[Bob_Niland]

... doesn't seem to make it the same PDF file size like manually doing it in Acrobat.

Although fine-tuning all (and there many) settings in Distiller may get you to the size you want, it may not get you all the way there.

We still manually post-process PDFs in Acrobat (Examine Document, Save As Optimized), because I haven't found any Distiller controls that can strip all of the same unwanted meta-data, in particular image previews (thumbnails), but also EXIF data, hidden image content and the like, all of which can represent a substantial percentage of a PDF.