

#How to reduce size of pdf for printing driver#
You either must accept that fact or redo the documents to be less graphically-complex.Īnd NO, on behalf of Adobe, we urge you not to use the hack of printing to the Adobe PDF PostScript printer driver instance.

To shrink the PDF file, you need to buy Adobe Acrobat DC that costs you a lot of money. With Adobe Reader, all you can do is view a PDF file, as well as, sign, print, and add a comment on it. When you choose the compatibility level, be aware that the newer the version of Acrobat that you. Unfortunately, you cannot shrink the PDF file size with Adobe Reader because it does not support this process. Select Acrobat 8.0 And Later for file compatibility, and click OK. Ultimately you just may not be able to reduce file sizes to 500K or less. In this section, youll use the Reduce File Size command to dramatically reduce or compress the size of a PDF file.

Just remember that even for screen display, many mobile and even desktop computers now have displays at or exceeding 300dpi in other words, it isn't just printing quality loss you need to worry about when downsampling images. If the original PDF file is mostly raster images at very high resolution, you might be able to significant reduce the file's size by setting optimization parameters to a lower resolution such as 150dpi (instead of 300 or 600) and compression to JPEG with a quality other than maximum. Yes, there are numerous parameters that can be specified for reducing the size of a PDF files via Optimize PDF, but which if any of these parameters can in fact reduce a particular PDF file's size depends (1) on the actual content of the PDF file and (2) to what degree you are willing to accept degradation of viewing and/or printing quality from the resultant PDF file.įor example, if a PDF file is strictly text and vector data and multiple pages, it is very unlikely that any of the Optimize PDF parameters or Reduced Size PDF will in fact reduce the file's size in any significant manner. You cannot arbitrarily legislate that a PDF file with particular content be of a particular size.
