Portable Document Format, or PDF for short, is one of the most ubiquitous file formats that is universally adopted across platforms. A PDF created on a Windows PC will be easily opened and even edited on a Mac, for example. That alone makes it one of the most used and most convenient file formats.On Mac, you can easily without the need of additional software, something I personally use quite often. While the process is quick and simple, it lacks customization options, specifically about the quality, and by extension the file size, of the PDF generated. In these cases, you might end up a with a very large PDF file weighting several MB.
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Phantom users could save the PDF file using PDF Optimizer/Reduce File Size to reduce the file size. PDF Optimizer provides many settings for reducing the size of PDF files. You may use all of these settings or only a few to reduce the fize, which depends on how you intend to use the files. There are two optional ways to reduce the file size.
Of course, the better the quality of the document, the heavier the file will end up being.There are instances where quality matters more than file size, but in most occasions, you’ll probably want to end up with a smaller file size which will make it easier to email, for example. Thankfully, there is a relatively unknown feature on your Mac that allows you to to take an existing PDF file and compress it to reduce its size.In this tutorial, I will show you how to compress and reduce the file size of a PDF on a Mac by using the Preview app.
How to compress a PDF on MacFor this tutorial, I downloaded a sample PDF that weighs in at 105 MB. This is a pretty large file that many email services wouldn’t even allow you to send to someone. We’ll see how much the file size reduction process helps at the end of the process.1) On your Mac, double-click on the PDF file you want to compress to open it. By default, it should open with Preview.
If not, make sure you do open that file with Preview.2) In the menu bar, click on File, then click on Export. 3) Click on the Quartz Filter dropdown menu.4) Select Reduce File Size, the click Save. The compressed PDF file will be saved to your computer.Unfortunately, you don’t have any control over the compression level.
In most cases, you probably won’t care about that, but if that is something you really want to adjust, then you should look into more capable third-party apps such as.Results: My 105 MB file was compressed and reduced to only 3.2 MB, which represents a reduction of about 97% in size. Although some images within the document have clearly lost their sharpness, the text contained in the file looks just as sharp in the compressed version as it does in the original one.
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This option affects whether or not PowerPoint keeps the cropped areas of your photos.When you first crop a photo down, PowerPoint keeps the part that you crop (it just hides it from you). That’s why cropping an image doesn't actually change the size in PowerPoint.If you know that you do not want keep the cropped areas of your photos, you can decrease the overall size of your image by selecting the 'Delete cropped areas of pictures' compression option.Just be warned, that once you delete the cropped areas you cannot undo them later. You’ll have to start over with the original photo.To learn how to crop a picture in PowerPoint (and all the options you have),. When choosing a resolution for your photos, it’s important to keep in mind the lifetime of the presentation you are building, and how it will be used.Beware of choosing a lower resolution during the draft phase of creating your slides simply to save space. That's because you will find that you cannot undo the lower resolution before your big pitch.It might be hard to tell in the photos below, the but picture compressed to 96 ppi is extremely grainy along the edges of the building. While it might look alright on your small computer screen, it will look horrible on an overhead projector of monitor.
Compressing images in PowerPoint is one to dramatically reduce your overall file size so that you can more easily share your presentation with other people.That said, I only recommend compressing your images if you really need to.If you are using a USB drive to share your presentation or you are just running your presentation from your own computer, there is no need to go through the hassle of compressing everything.If you enjoyed this tutorial and want to learn more about our online training courses and other PowerPoint tutorials,.
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