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Cutting and pasting

jandersen
Registered: Sep 19 2007
Posts: 4

I am trying to consolidate documents by cutting sections and pasting over text. However, when I paste, it doubles the image in size. How do I prevent this?

My Product Information:
Acrobat Standard 8, Windows
dbaker
Expert
Registered: Feb 10 2006
Posts: 413
Hi --

You are saving several layers of information during the cut and paste process. The simplest way to decrease the size is to save the file as itself, which overwrites the stored information. Choose File > Save As, and click Save. You are prompted that the file exists. When the file is resaved the extra data is removed.If you are using Acrobat 8, you can choose Document > Reduce File Size and make some savings that way.You can check out an article I wrote for this web site about cleaning PDF files, located at:
[url=http://www.acrobatusers.com/tutorials/2007/cleaning_pdf_docs/]http://www.acrobatusers.com/tutorials/2007/cleaning_pdf_docs/[/url]

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