Reduce size of PDF file but maintain quality?

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Pretty hard to take away (pixels) and not affect content quality, no?

Instead of clicking File>Save As PDF, you go to Print, (BUT DON'T CONNECT YOUR PRINTER! 😉,) then click PDF, AND THEN Save As PDF. This greatly reduces the size, but the quality is near perfect! 🙂

Hashtag1482 wrote:

I have used Finder

Huh?!

What do the PDFs contain? How (with what app) were they generated? How are they going to be used?

Take a look at PDFShrink. The link I gave is to the macupdate.com download page for PDFShrink which includes its description but also includes a Similar Software section for other possibilities.

It didn't reduce the size but it sure added white borders. So, no this doesn't work!

You are brilliant! This saved us a trip out in the cold to re-scan documents!

This is an amazing tip! 29mb to 4mb with barely, and I mean BARELY, and recognizable loss in quality.

I tried this and got a message (Acrobat) saying "Saving a PDF when printing is not supported. Instead, choose File>Save."

Advice?

That was genious!

Had a 32 Mb pdf that went 18 with Acrobat and the images were terrible.

Printed to pdf and the images look great. Size: 8Mb.