aacckkk! Is there an EASY way to shrink a big pdf file without scanning the documents again?

[Kali]

geez, I didn't realize what I was doing there, wanted to scan a couple pages of writing and stupidly selected pdf - now the thing is this huge 19MB file and it will take half a day to send it in an e-mail on my slow dial-up.

any quick magic way to make it into a lower resolution jpg or something???

[freshwest]

1. Can you duplicate it for safekeeping, open print preview and delete the unwanted pages?

You should be able to proceed from there with a smaller document.

[Kali]

2. it doesn't have any extra pages

I think it copied it as a high resolution photo instead of a paper document - the file is 4 pages, but I think the scanner's resolution is better than y actual CAMERA can do! I wasn't paying attention untol I went to e-mail the thing and it seemed to be taking forever - oops.

damn I hate this slow dial up - and I know what will happen - it will get about 3/4 of the way sent and then the damn line will disconnect!

[MilesColtrane]

3. Take a screen shot of it and save as a .jpg?

:shrug:

[Kali]

4. ooooh! brilliant!!!!

:* :loveya:

[Moondog]

5. There are applications that will open a PDF and then allow you to

save it in other formats, to include JPG. While this particular example would be using a sledgehammer to kill a gnat, I know that you can do this in Photoshop CS5, because I did that last week.

Adobe Reader will let you save from PDF to TXT, if that helps. Not sure what happens to graphic content if you take that approach.

I'm pretty sure that there are various shareware and freeware apps out there that have format conversion as a primary purpose, so if you have a lot of these to convert you might look into that.

[Kali]

6. nah, just a one time thing - I think

too lazy to go get the original and scan it again, mostly

thanks, though!

[IcyPeas]

7. we use a program at work called pdfDOCS...

called pdfDocs Organizer. I don't know if there if such a program is available for single computers, but you can "Compress" a file with it.

It a really cool pdf program, it lets you delete single pages, join up multiple pdfs, split them into smaller sizes for emailing, pick out and save specific pages (or single pages) into one file, compare pdfs, compare a pdf and a word doc etc.

[kentauros]

8. There are ways of reducing the resolution within the document.

However, I don't have access to anything but Acrobat Reader at the moment, and there's no such option on the dumbed-down version.

So, I looked online and found at least one option I've used successfully in the past :)

http://acrobatusers.com/tutorials/reducing-file-size
http://acrobatusers.com/forum/printing-prepress/reduce-file-size-resolution-concerns

[rug]

9. Transfer it to a thumb drive, connect the thumb drive to the scanner.Then throw water on the scanner

You're welcome.

[NV Whino]

10. You can export a jpeg from Acrobat

I think Reader alone will do it. You will lose resolution and may have a hard time reading it.

[Orrex]

11. Walk all the way across the room and take another look from there

Much smaller.

[Zenlitened]

12. Possibly CVision's online optimizing tool:

http://www.cvisiontech.com/online-conversion/general/main.html

Though I've never tried it on a scanned doc.

:)