Comments on: Quick PDF file size reduction on a Mac

By: Steve

Steve — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 02:40:48 +0000

Andy, thanks man. You just made me look wicked smart in front of my techy smart boss …

By: J. Gary Ellison

J. Gary Ellison — Mon, 23 Jan 2012 04:32:27 +0000

This is a huge help now that my mission is accepting scanned receipts. I set the resolution to 150 and the Max to 1200 and can hardly see any difference, yet the files are still about 1/6 the size or more. 1.1 MB image files are now 98 KB with virtually no discernible loss!

I might add that once you duplicate the filter and name it what you want, it will show up in the Preview Save As… menu.

Also, since I am now moving to a paperless office, this is a tremendous help. Thanks so much!

By: Paul

Paul — Fri, 06 Jan 2012 17:29:50 +0000

I owe you HUGE! I've spent the last hour trying to get a 3-page, color, scanned-to-PDF document down to size, and all other suggestions and tips failed — EXCEPT YOURS! Thank you very much!!!!

By: pitoufanie

pitoufanie — Thu, 09 Jun 2011 13:24:50 +0000

AWESOME TIP! dont even need a new program, thanks!!

By: Marleen

Marleen — Thu, 28 Apr 2011 13:39:32 +0000

I adapted the filters, but unfortunately I don't see the box "quartz filter" when I do a "save as" of the file, so I cannot apply the new settings in the filter…

By: Henry

Henry — Mon, 07 Feb 2011 13:06:33 +0000

THANKS A LOT!!! I work at the university and use to give my slides to the students as pdfs. Since I have a Mac, I only managed to create huge pdfs out of my powerpoint presentations. Since I know this trick, I came from 32 MB to 3,7 MB on the first file I tried!
Really helpful, keep updating with such nice stuff!!

By: Shereen

Shereen — Thu, 14 Oct 2010 13:48:07 +0000

FINALLY. Thanks for the post. This is the only post I could find that helped me reduce my 700kb file to a 170kb file (less than 500 kb was what i was going for) without reducing the quality to the point of unreadability. It is a very clever solution. THANK YOU.

By: Dave

Dave — Mon, 03 May 2010 06:04:18 +0000

No ingratitude. Just thought you'd like to keep your page up-to-date.

On the internet, nothing ever expires…

Dave

By: Sean Tierney

Sean Tierney — Sun, 02 May 2010 17:35:08 +0000

@Dave & Jojo, holy ingratitude… this post is 3yrs old (look at the date in the URL). I have no idea what version my OS was at the time. You're welcome for steering you to the mechanism that allows you to optimize PDF's (even if the specifics of the process are slightly different now). jeeesh, tough crowd…

Sean

By: Tiago

Tiago — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 19:05:16 +0000

Thank you very much!
I had looking for this tip a lot.