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How to Downsize PDF Files on Windows and Mac

PDF documents can look and feel awesome, particularly when filled with bundles of colorful designs. Alongside that sleek look, however, can come big file sizes that can crack even the smoothest email services. There are many ways to downsize PDF to make it more compact and small. In this article, I will teach you the easiest and most effective way.

Part 1Best Program for PDF Downsize

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Wondershare PDFelement is simple and can help you edit, annotate, create, convert, compress your PDF. If offers you different compression levels to choose from. You can also customize the compression settings by yourself. PDFelement also offers you many other features:

  • Edit and annotate PDF to make any change on texts, images and pages.
  • Fill out interactive and non-interactive fields of PDF forms, create and edit PDF forms.
  • The OCR feature is able to recognize texts and images from scanned PDF and make it editable.
  • Password protect your PDF to prevent unauthorized person from viewing, editing and copying content from your PDF.
  • Quickly create and convert PDF files to let you flexibly repurpose your documents.

Part 2The Steps for Downsizing a PDF File

Firstly, to make use of all the features and qualities of this flawless PDF tool, you need to download and install PDFelement on your Windows or Mac computer. To figure out how to downsize your PDF, take the below-mentioned simple and basic steps.

Step 1. Open PDF with PDFelement

Windows user after opening PDFelement ought to click on the "Open" button on the Home window. That will open another window where you can choose your file that you have to downsize.

Alternatively, Mac users can import the PDF file you want to downsize by clicking on the "Open File" option.

Step 2. Perform PDF Downsizing

On Windows, go to "File > Optimize". Now you will see 4 pre-set options on your screen. Choose one of the four pre-set options as per your needs. If you don't like the pre-set choices already present and want to downsize to the size of your interest, please click "Custom" to set the settings you require.

On Mac, click on the "Optimize PDF" option under the "File" menu. On this window, there are several options to choose to reduce the size according to your needs. Compress the PDF by clicking on the required file size. Click "Save As" to save this PDF file as another duplicate on your computer.

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Published: Jun 07,2016 11:08 am / Updated: Jul 01,2016 16:24 pm

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