why are pdf's so huge. i need to compress

[Fanatical Meat]

I have to get a resume under 250k. I've tried to mess with the print settings, tried two PDF compressors and I still can't get my 460k file to under 250. I do not have MS word. Any advice?

 

[lxskllr]

Why is it so big, pictures? If you have pictures, compress the images.

 

[Fanatical Meat]

No its just a resume text only.

 

[lxskllr]

What are you using? LibreOffice exports as PDF. I tested a plain text document with 11113 characters, and it created a PDF 48.4kb in size.

 

[sm625]

Wow you've got something seriously wrong in source your file.

Can you try PrimoPDF? It is a pretty awesome and seamless print-to-pdf driver. You use it just like you would a printer, you select it in your print options. It could not be easier to use. One page of text equates to about 36k in pdf form.

 

[Fanatical Meat]

Sounds good guy, the file is from a resume building website.

 

[Fanatical Meat]

Yay I think I've got it down to 24kb. Wish me luck folks, looking for work sucks these days. I look forward to low unemployment days and hearing employers complain that there is no money left for pay increases.

 

[lxskllr]

Good luck! You should download LibreOffice. It makes PDFs, and a bunch of other stuff. It's useful to keep around when you need to whip up a document, and it's completely gratis, and libre.

 

[Binky]

If you scan a piece of paper, it scans every little spec on the page, leading to a large file.

If you export the same page directly from Word/Excel or any of the numerous pdf printers, it comes out very clean and very small.

 

[bico]

you can install adobe acrobat, it comes with acrobat distiller which can 'print' to pdf (it's a trial but..). so you can print the document and set properties for specified media (for example 'email', where data is scaled down). i personally use ghostscript to do that work:

gs -q -dBATCH -dNOPAUSE -sDEVICE=pdfwrite -sOutputFile=out.pdf -dOptimize=true in.pdf

 

[GrumpyMan]

CutePDF

 

[Miramonti]

Adobe's pdf compressor is the most efficient out of numerous ones I've tried.