Adobe Acrobat and Huge File Sizes!

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Hello Folks

I couldn't see a specific Adobe Acrobat Forum so hope it's okay to post this query here?

Basically I have a ten-page A4-sized colour booklet I need to put online as an Adobe Acrobat download.

I realise that you're not supposssed to scan direct in Acrobat for small file sizes, but I do not have the original Digital Medium and I'm unsure what is the best way to maintain the quality but keep the download size manageable.

I scanned at 150 DPI 216 Web-optimised palette and the resultant document is...wait for it........8MBs!

When I go to PDF Consultant >Audit Space Usage - it is 99% images!!

When I print this to Distiller set to screen (as advised elsewhere) to resample, the quality is very poor.

Please, please, help.

Regards

Andrew

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I don't know the answer as I don't really use PDF files online but here are some articles I have come across which may help:

http://www.planetpdf.com/mainpage.asp?webpageid=1502&nl
http://www.adobe.com/support/techdocs/29772.htm

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WM

Thanks for the links.
From your link to Adobe Support, I popped along to their Windows Forum and after reading similiar queries I'm all clued up.

Cheers and thanks again

Andrew

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Glad to have helped Laughing out loud

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