How to Compress PDF in Adobe Acrobat

Have found that your PDF is comparatively larger than the one your workmates have made? And every time it takes so long to open the PDF presentation on a meeting, huh? What's worse is that you cannot send a large PDF file to other people via Email. How embarrassing it is! If you have Adobe Acrobat X, you are capable of compressing the PDF file. Here are the steps for how to compress PDF in Adobe Acrobat X (Adobe Acrobat X standard or Adobe Acrobat X Pro).

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Part 2How to Perform PDF OCR with Adobe Acrobat and without

: Step 1. Open PDF with Adobe
Open the PDF file you need to compress by going to File > Open, browsing and locating the PDF file.

In the Properties dialogue box, check the real size of the current PDF file. Decide what size you need the PDF to be. Be careful, if you compress PDF in Acrobat excessively, the PDF might be in a mess. Just do the compressing thing with a suitable size.

Step 2. Compress PDF with Adobe
Compress the PDF file: go to File > Save As > Reduced Size PDF. In the pop-up box, select Acrobat 10.0 or later in the drop-down menu of Make Compatible With and click "Ok". And then find a place in the prompt to save the PDF file.

That's how to compress PDF in Acrobat. If you need to compress multiple PDF files, when the Reduced Size PDF dialogue box pops up, after you select Acrobat 10.0 or later in the drop-down menu of Make Compatible With, click Apply to Multiple.

Step 1. Import a PDF
Launch PDFelement. Open the PDF file that you want to compress by clicking the Open button.

Step 2. Compress Your PDF
And then go to the File menu and select Optimize. You will see the preset parameters for the output PDF file. You're able to choose the corresponding one for the output PDF file according to what you're going to do with the PDF file. Of course, you can also custom the settings by yourself. Click Optimize to start the process of PDF compression.

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