Optimization of PDF files

You find that your PDF file takes up more space compared to that your colleagues have made ? And each time, it takes too much time to open the PDF presentation during a meeting ? The worst is that you cannot send a large PDF file to other people by email. It is really boring ! If you have Adobe ® Acrobat ® X, you are able to compress the PDF file. Below is the steps to compress PDF on Adobe Reader X (Adobe ® Acrobat ® X Standard or Adobe ® Acrobat ® x pro)

2 steps to compress a PDF on Adobe ® Acrobat ®

You find that your PDF file takes up more space compared to that your colleagues have made ? And each time, it takes too much time to open the PDF presentation during a meeting ? The worst is that you cannot send a large PDF file to other people by email. It is really boring ! If you have Adobe ® Acrobat ® X, you are able to compress the PDF file. Below is the steps to compress PDF on Adobe Reader X (Adobe ® Acrobat ® X Standard or Adobe ® Acrobat ® x pro)

How to use Adobe ® Acrobat ® to compress PDF

Step 1. Open the PDF with Adobe

Open the PDF file you need to compress by going to file> Open, browse and locate the PDF file.

In the properties dialog box, check the actual size of your current PDF file. Decide the size you need for your PDF. Be vigilant, if you compress the PDF excessively, the PDF can come out badly. Proceed with compression at the required size.

2nd step. Compress PDF with Adobe

Compress the PDF file: Go to file> Save as> reduced size of PDF. In the pop-up, select Acrobat 10.0 or a later version in the drop -down list to make compatible with and click on “OK”. Then find a location to save the PDF file.

This is how you have to do to compress pdf in acrobat. If you need to compress several PDF files, when the “reduced size of PDF dialog appears”, after selecting Acrobat 10.0 or a later version in the drop -down list to make compatible with, click Apply for several.

However, according to Adobe’s blog, the Acrobat XI product support will be interrupted from October 15, 2017, which means that there will be no security updates, updates to updates products and more customer service for this product. You can of course continue to use the program, but you will have to expect it to cost you more and what the program plants more often. Worse, your PDF files and your data could fall into bad hands due to the lack of protection. In this case, you can go here to find the best alternatives of Adobe ® Acrobat ® .

How to use the alternative to Adobe ® Acrobat ® to compress PDF

If you have not bought Adobe ® Acrobat ®, you can try another professional but affordable tool: Wondershare pdfelement . It offers several levels of compression to compress PDF files in smaller sizes easily and quickly.

Optimization of PDF files

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