Re: Split PDF and reduce file size
Re: Split PDF and reduce file size
- Subject: Re: Split PDF and reduce file size
- From: Michael Conner <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 10 Aug 2005 13:13:33 -0500
I haven't done this with scripting, but your problem may be with how you are
doing this and saving files. If you delete pages from a PDF in Acrobat (in 7
on Tiger), then just save, the size will not reflect any change. However, if
you Save As to a new file, it will be smaller, at least in my test. I've
seen this more with cropping, Acrobat doesn't really crop, it just shows you
a smaller crop window but doesn't delete anything from the file.
Mike Conner
on 8/10/05 12:39 PM, Ian Cook at email@hidden wrote:
> Hopefully someone out there has had this problem...
>
> I've written a script that takes a large pdf (multi-page + graphics) and
> splits it into as many files as there are pages. My problem is that all the
> pages retain the same original file size (large as the file contains pages
> with graphics) despite some of them only being text.
> - The Reduce File SizeĀ command in Acrobat achieves this but I don't think
> it's scriptable - even though the menu item command?
> - PDF Shrink is a utility but it doesn't support Applescript - even though
> you can open a file in it, you can't process it
> - any ideas?
>
> I'm using Acrobat 6 and Tiger
>
> Thanks
> Ian Cook
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