Adobe ACROBAT 9 HOW-TOS Manual page 98

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Transparency. Choose transparency flattening and settings such as
resolutions for text, line art, and gradients.
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Discard Objects. Decide what objects to remove, such as form fields,
alternate images, and search indexes. Some options in this panel
are the same as those available in the Examine Document dialog,
described in #32.
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Discard User Data. Decide what added items can be removed
from the document, such as layers, form content, cross-references,
attachments, and comments. Some of the options from the Examine
Document dialog described in #32 are included in this panel.
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Clean Up. Choose other cleanup details, such as removal of invalid
links or bookmarks, encoding options, and a method of compressing
the document's structure.
Click Save to name and save the settings if you plan to reuse them at
a later time. If optimizing is a onetime thing, click OK to close the dialog.
Click Save in the Save Optimized dialog to overwrite the original file. To be
on the safe side, however, save the document with another name instead,
and after you are satisfied with the results, delete the original.
#33: Optimizing a PDF Document
Save It Again
One of the simplest ways to
reduce file size is to save a
file as itself. If you have been
working with a document—
for example, adding and
removing pages—an
iteration of the file is saved
each time you save it. These
iterations can really add up
to a huge file size. Choose
File > Save As. In the Save
As dialog, leave the name as
is and click Save. A prompt
asks if you want to overwrite
the file; click Yes. The file
is resaved, and content is
consolidated. You may be
surprised how much smaller
the file becomes!
From the Library of Daniel Dadian
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