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Shrink Large Files With Adobe PDF Printer - Can Anyone Explain This ?

wolong
Registered: Jan 4 2008
Posts: 2

Using Acrobat 5.0.5, I created a large (10MB) pdf file from two 5mb JPG color images. The resulting pdf file was 10mb. I could not find any way to shrink or compact the file. I emailed the 10mb file to a friend who was able to shrink it to 425 KB, with no loss of quality, by loading it into Acrobat Ver 6 and printing it to "Adobe PDF" printer. I have no "Adobe PDF" printer on my system is that something that came with Version 6? Is there a way I can do what he was able to do? My Acrobat installation includes a "PDFWriter" printer, but pdf documents cannot be printed using it.

gkaiseril
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Registered: Feb 23 2006
Posts: 4307
Adobe renamed the Acorbat PDF Writer, the virtul print driver that can print PDFs.

George Kaiser