| Tip 153 | Shrink PDF Files |
All applications capable of editing documents or pictures on a Mac can output files as PDFs. To do so, just click File→Print on the menu of the application, and click the PDF drop-down at the bottom left. Then select Save as PDF, and enter a filename as usual (be sure to add a pdf file extension if you want the file to be read on computers other than Macs).
However, PDFs created by Macs tend to be large. The solution is simple: repeat the previous steps to output a PDF, but choose the Open PDF in Preview option from the PDF drop-down list. Then, when the Preview window appears, click File→Export. In the Save As dialog box, click Reduce File Size in the Quartz Filter drop-down list.
Note that shrinking PDFs in this way ...
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