Reply To: Help!! Reduce file size to 2mb??

Thanks everyone for the advice, it was the vectors in my file! I had some logos that were placed as vectors in the brochure, they only appeared 3 times but took up loads of space. I have gone through the whole file and replaced all vector graphics with pngs and it worked!

A really helpful tip I found was in adobe acrobat to view what was taking up space in the pdf – file > save as> optimised pdf > in the pdf optimizer window > audit space usuage (top right button) > this gives you a break down of all the elements in the files and how much space they take up.

Most of my space was in ‘content streams’ which is either text or graphics. Seeing as an identical text only file was tiny in comparrision, I assumed it was the vector/graphics. changing this to linked pngs reduced the file from 7.6mb to 2mb.

Phew! thanks everyone for the help