Adobe Acrobat Professional File Reduction Problem

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hapaboy

I use Adobe Acrobat Professional 6.0 and have a 2 MB Adobe Acrobat file which I'm trying to shrink down to e-mailable size.

I use the "Reduce File Size" function in the program, which reduces the size to under 1 MB, but when I print out the resized document, it's horribly smeared in black and completely unreadable. (Non-reduced documents print out fine, so it's not my printer).

Anyone know how to reduce Adobe documents so that the print quality is not affected?

Mahalo in advance...

H
 
I'm using Acrobat Pro 7.0 and have done this in the past with no problem. What happens in 7.0 is that it tells you the more you reduce, the lower the release of the Acrobat Reader is supported.

I'm thinking your PDF file may have been created as an IMAGE, rather from HTML....and the two are quite different because you won't be able to reduce the size much if your PDF was created from a SCANNED document.
 
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I'm using Acrobat Pro 7.0 and have done this in the past with no problem. What happens in 7.0 is that it tells you the more you reduce, the lower the release of the Acrobat Reader is supported.

I'm thinking your PDF file may have been created as an IMAGE, rather from HTML....and the two are quite different because you won't be able to reduce the size much if your PDF was created from a SCANNED document.
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You're right on the mark. It was created from a scanned document.

Guess there's not much I can do.

Thanks for the response.

H
 
Quote from syswizard:

I'm using Acrobat Pro 7.0 and have done this in the past with no problem. What happens in 7.0 is that it tells you the more you reduce, the lower the release of the Acrobat Reader is supported.

I'm thinking your PDF file may have been created as an IMAGE, rather from HTML....and the two are quite different because you won't be able to reduce the size much if your PDF was created from a SCANNED document.
More...
You're right on the mark. It was created from a scanned document.

Guess there's not much I can do.

Thanks for the response.

H
 
yes you can.
Scan it but then OCR it so that text and images are SEPARATED.
Once you do that, you'll probably have it in Word or HTML format.
From Word or HTML, the PDF file will be quite small.
If you purchase http://www.nuance.com/omnipage/ it will scan directly to a compact PDF file for you.
 
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