Let that PDF Shrink!

I have always been producing PDF  for reports or presentations and flattening documents so that layout won’t get messy when I open my files on different machines and of different software versions. With this approach, I can see the use of portability with PDF… as the name implies “Portable Document Format“, duh!

But sometimes, portability is not what I am concerned about. Files may range from different sizes and it can go to some MB of sizes which is heavy, especially for slide presentation converted to PDF (graphically, large by image resolutions). So, I searched for some compressing the PDF file size. I have used Winzip and Winrar to do the task— not enough, though. And I found PDF Shrinker by Apago Software and it was effective. Here’s some software details that you should know:

PDF Shrink can reduce most PDF files— including those created by Mac OS X iLife and iWork applications, Adobe Creative Suite, Microsoft Word & PowerPoint—by as much as 90% of their original size. PDF Shrink is ideal for consumers and small businesses that need to produce PDFs at a quality and file size appropriate for use on the Web, as email attachments, CD-ROMs and for on-screen reading. The software is compatible with Mac OS X 10.4 & 10.5 and supports PDF Services, droplets and AppleScript.