4 Ways To Reduce The Size Of A PDF File

scan my class notes and handouts, and transfer some e-textbooks so I can view them on my Kindle to save myself carrying too much in my backpack. This is something that Calibre could help convert easily to ebook reader-friendly formats, but the resulting PDF files are often huge, have several pages and thus, take sometime to load and smoothly display things. This is especially true for my Logic textbook, which is about 180MB.
So in my desperate search for ways to optimize PDF files, I’ve found that there aren’t many free options. Although there are a lot of shareware programs, there are also, thankfully, a few free programs can help you reduce a PDF file size.

Irfanview & GhostScript [Windows & Possibly Linux]

If you don’t have Irfanview, you should really consider downloading it. It’s a much better and lightning fast alternative to the default image viewer in Windows, supports countless plugins that allow it to be extremely versatile, and converts images to different file types. You can use it to add borders and watermarks to your photos, and batch process many images at a time. You can also view PDF files, provided you download GhostScript first.
Once you have Ghostscript installed, you can use Irfanview (portable version will work as well) to view PDF files and save them as new files. You’ll get a box on the right of the Save As dialog to choose compression levels.

You can choose to save with lossless, best, high, medium, and ‘dump’ quality. In my tests, Irfanview reduced a 14MB PDF file to 8MB using the high-quality setting in Compression, while the lossless and best quality settings produced files bigger than the original size.

PrimoPDF [Windows]

PrimoPDF is a desktop application that allows you to create PDF files from image files and documents.

It installs itself as a virtual printer, which makes optimizing PDF files a matter of opening the files and printing them with PrimoPDF, though you can also drag and drop documents to the PrimoPDF desktop shortcut. From there, you’ll get a dialog box, where you can choose the document quality.

For the smallest file size, choose the Screen setting. Pressing Create PDF starts the conversion.

Free PDF Compressor (version 1.12) [Windows]

This program is now shareware but the link provided leads to the last freeware version. It is pretty much just an executable that does a decent job at reducing PDF file sizes. In my tests, this program managed to reduce a 50MB PDF file to 45MB, with the maximum compression level, at an impressive speed (almost instant conversion).

Neevia’s PDFCompress [Web-Based]

PDFCompress is a simple web app that takes any PDF files smaller than 5MB and compresses them according to the presets you chose (low, medium, high and maximum). Maximum compression means the quality will be approximately a 10 in a scale of 100. In my test with a 3MB file and maximum compression, the optimized file was about 9% smaller, with no visible quality loss.

I should also mention PDF ReDirect which is another Windows-only PDF printer that lets you optimize and rotate PDF files, which we previously reviewed here.
What free software do you use to reduce PDF file size? Let us know in the comments!
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4 Ways To Reduce The Size Of A PDF File

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scan my class notes and handouts, and transfer some e-textbooks so I can view them on my Kindle to save myself carrying too much in my backpack. This is something that Calibre could help convert easily to ebook reader-friendly formats, but the resulting PDF files are often huge, have several pages and thus, take sometime to load and smoothly display things. This is especially true for my Logic textbook, which is about 180MB.
So in my desperate search for ways to optimize PDF files, I’ve found that there aren’t many free options. Although there are a lot of shareware programs, there are also, thankfully, a few free programs can help you reduce a PDF file size.

Irfanview & GhostScript [Windows & Possibly Linux]

If you don’t have Irfanview, you should really consider downloading it. It’s a much better and lightning fast alternative to the default image viewer in Windows, supports countless plugins that allow it to be extremely versatile, and converts images to different file types. You can use it to add borders and watermarks to your photos, and batch process many images at a time. You can also view PDF files, provided you download GhostScript first.
Once you have Ghostscript installed, you can use Irfanview (portable version will work as well) to view PDF files and save them as new files. You’ll get a box on the right of the Save As dialog to choose compression levels.

You can choose to save with lossless, best, high, medium, and ‘dump’ quality. In my tests, Irfanview reduced a 14MB PDF file to 8MB using the high-quality setting in Compression, while the lossless and best quality settings produced files bigger than the original size.

PrimoPDF [Windows]

PrimoPDF is a desktop application that allows you to create PDF files from image files and documents.

It installs itself as a virtual printer, which makes optimizing PDF files a matter of opening the files and printing them with PrimoPDF, though you can also drag and drop documents to the PrimoPDF desktop shortcut. From there, you’ll get a dialog box, where you can choose the document quality.

For the smallest file size, choose the Screen setting. Pressing Create PDF starts the conversion.

Free PDF Compressor (version 1.12) [Windows]

This program is now shareware but the link provided leads to the last freeware version. It is pretty much just an executable that does a decent job at reducing PDF file sizes. In my tests, this program managed to reduce a 50MB PDF file to 45MB, with the maximum compression level, at an impressive speed (almost instant conversion).

Neevia’s PDFCompress [Web-Based]

PDFCompress is a simple web app that takes any PDF files smaller than 5MB and compresses them according to the presets you chose (low, medium, high and maximum). Maximum compression means the quality will be approximately a 10 in a scale of 100. In my test with a 3MB file and maximum compression, the optimized file was about 9% smaller, with no visible quality loss.

I should also mention PDF ReDirect which is another Windows-only PDF printer that lets you optimize and rotate PDF files, which we previously reviewed here.
What free software do you use to reduce PDF file size? Let us know in the comments!
http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/4-ways-reduce-size-pdf-file/

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Adjust images in the original document to reduce the size of the resulting PDF

A common PDF size problem occurs when the printed document contains images that were inserted in large sizes and then reduced within the document itself. However, even if you reduce the dimensions of the image in the document (or the program does its automatic resize), the entire size of the image is still kept. So one solution to reduce the file size of a pdf printed from a document with images is to force the program into compressing and deleting the cropped areas of the images in the entire document. While programs such as Microsoft Word offer options to do that even after you've added the images, for other programs you should crop/re-size the image with an image editor and only after that insert it in the document.

An example on how to compress and delete the cropped areas of the images in a Microsoft Word document (however please make a copy of the word document before doing this, so that you'll have the original copy with higher resolution and non-cropped images, and this second one with lower resolution and cropped images):

• Make a copy of the original word document, and open the copy. Double-click on the image, go to the Picture Tools tab and click on Format.
• A new window with compress options will be opened. In the Compress Pictures window, make sure that Delete cropped areas of pictures is selected.
• Now click on OK and this should considerably reduce the size of the PDF.

This is a screenshot of where to find that Compress window, even if it's taken for Office 2010, in Office 2007 there's a similar option:

• 

Adjust the PDF compression/downsample settings in novaPDF

In novaPDF Standard and Professional there is a Graphics tab that lets you select several Predefined graphic options. By default Compress is selected, which will compress the text and graphics when converting to PDF so that the size of the PDF file will be smaller. However, this is a medium compression so if you want to have the smallest possible size of the resulting PDF, the compression settings should be set to the highest compression value, as well as selecting the downsample and conversion options.

To set the Compression/Downsample options:

• Go to Start->Devices and Printers (Printers only in Windows 2000/Vista), right-click novaPDF Std/Pro and select Printing Preferences
• Go to Graphics and from the Predefined drop-down select Custom and after that click OK
• Make sure all the Compress options are checked, as well as all the Downsample options
• Optionally, you can click on each of the checked options and click on the Configure button. In the Level drop-down select Maximum instead of the default High compression level
• Click OK to save all the changes and after that print the document to novaPDF again and compare the resulting size

Video Tutorial Compress/Downsample setup:

While this will ensure a smaller PDF size, the quality of the images in the resulting PDF file will be lower, so it's recommended to use this only when the PDF is used for distribution, reviewing purposes or to be put on the web, but not when sending a PDF for printing.
Another option that could reduce the size of the resulting PDF is not to embed the fonts in the PDF. By default novaPDF embeds the font subsets, to ensure that the recipient of the PDF will see the text with the same font as it was in the original document. However, if you consider that having the font substituted wouldn't be a problem (or if the recipient of the PDF has the fonts you're using), you can uncheck the option to embed font subsets. To do so:

• Go to Start->Devices and Printers (Printers only in Windows 2000/Vista), right-click novaPDF Lite/Std/Pro and select Printing Preferences
• Go to Fonts tab and uncheck the Embed subsets option
• Click OK to save the changes

Video Tutorial Font embedding setup:

Applies to:

• novaPDF Printer 6.x, 7.x
• Microsoft Office 2003, 2007, 2010

http://www.novapdf.com/kb/reduce-pdf-file-size-152.html

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Adjust images in the original document to reduce the size of the resulting PDF

A common PDF size problem occurs when the printed document contains images that were inserted in large sizes and then reduced within the document itself. However, even if you reduce the dimensions of the image in the document (or the program does its automatic resize), the entire size of the image is still kept. So one solution to reduce the file size of a pdf printed from a document with images is to force the program into compressing and deleting the cropped areas of the images in the entire document. While programs such as Microsoft Word offer options to do that even after you've added the images, for other programs you should crop/re-size the image with an image editor and only after that insert it in the document.

An example on how to compress and delete the cropped areas of the images in a Microsoft Word document (however please make a copy of the word document before doing this, so that you'll have the original copy with higher resolution and non-cropped images, and this second one with lower resolution and cropped images):

• Make a copy of the original word document, and open the copy. Double-click on the image, go to the Picture Tools tab and click on Format.
• A new window with compress options will be opened. In the Compress Pictures window, make sure that Delete cropped areas of pictures is selected.
• Now click on OK and this should considerably reduce the size of the PDF.

This is a screenshot of where to find that Compress window, even if it's taken for Office 2010, in Office 2007 there's a similar option:

• 

Adjust the PDF compression/downsample settings in novaPDF

In novaPDF Standard and Professional there is a Graphics tab that lets you select several Predefined graphic options. By default Compress is selected, which will compress the text and graphics when converting to PDF so that the size of the PDF file will be smaller. However, this is a medium compression so if you want to have the smallest possible size of the resulting PDF, the compression settings should be set to the highest compression value, as well as selecting the downsample and conversion options.

To set the Compression/Downsample options:

• Go to Start->Devices and Printers (Printers only in Windows 2000/Vista), right-click novaPDF Std/Pro and select Printing Preferences
• Go to Graphics and from the Predefined drop-down select Custom and after that click OK
• Make sure all the Compress options are checked, as well as all the Downsample options
• Optionally, you can click on each of the checked options and click on the Configure button. In the Level drop-down select Maximum instead of the default High compression level
• Click OK to save all the changes and after that print the document to novaPDF again and compare the resulting size

Video Tutorial Compress/Downsample setup:

While this will ensure a smaller PDF size, the quality of the images in the resulting PDF file will be lower, so it's recommended to use this only when the PDF is used for distribution, reviewing purposes or to be put on the web, but not when sending a PDF for printing.
Another option that could reduce the size of the resulting PDF is not to embed the fonts in the PDF. By default novaPDF embeds the font subsets, to ensure that the recipient of the PDF will see the text with the same font as it was in the original document. However, if you consider that having the font substituted wouldn't be a problem (or if the recipient of the PDF has the fonts you're using), you can uncheck the option to embed font subsets. To do so:

• Go to Start->Devices and Printers (Printers only in Windows 2000/Vista), right-click novaPDF Lite/Std/Pro and select Printing Preferences
• Go to Fonts tab and uncheck the Embed subsets option
• Click OK to save the changes

Video Tutorial Font embedding setup:

Applies to:

• novaPDF Printer 6.x, 7.x
• Microsoft Office 2003, 2007, 2010

http://www.novapdf.com/kb/reduce-pdf-file-size-152.html

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How to Compress Huge PDF Files to Smaller Size

: Are you having any PDF (Portable Document Format) file you wish to send as an attachment via email to friends or anyone but you were discourage/unable to send it due to the large size the file(s) possess. In this case, trying to compress/shrink the PDF file(s) will be the best solution to have the file(s) in smaller size.

Benefits of Shrunk or Compressed PDF Files

Compressed PDF files have many benefits but I will just try to mention a few of it:

• File size would be decreased to a smaller size
• Shrunk PDF files makes sharing easy
• Downloading and Uploading would be faster
• Files would be easily accessible and archive and etc.

How to Compress PDF Files Online

To easily compress PDF files online, we are going to make use of a convenient and easy to use online tool known as Neevia Technology PDF compressor. With Neevia, different types of compression setting can be selected from the settings menu. All you need to do to compress your file is to upload your PDF file and Click on the Compress button.

Neevia Technology PDF compressor is most convenient way to compress your PDF files online. You can select different compression settings from the settings menu. Upload your PDF file and Click on the Compress button. That’s all your file is compressed.

How to Compress Huge PDF Files to Smaller Size

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: Are you having any PDF (Portable Document Format) file you wish to send as an attachment via email to friends or anyone but you were discourage/unable to send it due to the large size the file(s) possess. In this case, trying to compress/shrink the PDF file(s) will be the best solution to have the file(s) in smaller size.

Benefits of Shrunk or Compressed PDF Files

Compressed PDF files have many benefits but I will just try to mention a few of it:

• File size would be decreased to a smaller size
• Shrunk PDF files makes sharing easy
• Downloading and Uploading would be faster
• Files would be easily accessible and archive and etc.

How to Compress PDF Files Online

To easily compress PDF files online, we are going to make use of a convenient and easy to use online tool known as Neevia Technology PDF compressor. With Neevia, different types of compression setting can be selected from the settings menu. All you need to do to compress your file is to upload your PDF file and Click on the Compress button.

Neevia Technology PDF compressor is most convenient way to compress your PDF files online. You can select different compression settings from the settings menu. Upload your PDF file and Click on the Compress button. That’s all your file is compressed.