Condensing PDF files

[prisonermonkeys]

Hey guys,

I'm hoping someone can help me out, and quickly. I currently have four .pdf files that are 20.9mB in size each. I am attempting to attach these to an e-mail, but my e-mail account cannot handle it. Is there a way that I can condense these files down to something much more manageable? And if so, how can I do it?

 

[bergauk]

You might be able to compress them via zip/rar?

The other option is something like this. http://blog.nitropdf.com/2008/02/11/5-tricks-to-shrinkreduce-pdf-file-size/

 

[Pako]

Adobe also has a new service I saw popup in Acrobat Reader X, called Send Now. Allowing you to create a free account and send up to a 100mb file and retain up to 500mb for files downloads with a 7 day retention with the free account. Simply enter the recipient's address and the file is uploaded to Adobe's server where it sits ready to be downloaded by your recipient. The recipient gets an email with a download link where they can download the file directly from Adobe's server thereby bypassing the email max file size limitations.

http://www.acrobat.com/sendnow/en/home.html

 

[AOS-]

I'm not knowledgable about Acrobat, but I was told there's an option under "Document" to "Reduce File Size", and it just does some stuff and out of nowhere your file sizes get smaller.

 

[wfooshee]

If you're creating these PDFs by scanning, then use OCR instead of simple image scanning. Pictures of documents are much larger than documents.

No help if you're not the creator of the documents, though, sorry.

 

[prisonermonkeys]

Yes, I'm the creator of the documents. I'll have a go at that now.

 

[prisonermonkeys]

Well, it worked - I saved them directly to .pdf and it cut them down to a quarter of their size. My e-mail still doesn't like attaching them, though ...