Adobe Acrobat DC

Large PDF? Compress that file.

Learn how to reduce the size of your PDF file on Windows or Mac in seconds. It’s ridiculously easy.

 

 

Adobe Acrobat DC

Large PDF? Compress that file.

Learn how to reduce the size of your PDF file on Windows or Mac in seconds. It’s ridiculously easy.

Optimize

Be the master of your document. Our Optimize PDF tool includes a PDF compressor. With just a click, reduce PDF file sizes, enable fast web view, and set image quality and font options.

Attachable

Attachable

  • Compress PDF files to send as smaller attachments.
  • Send and download Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint files or JPG and PNG images faster.
Accurate

Accurate

  • Preserve your original image and font choices with file compression.
  • Enable fast web view of any PDF file while keeping original options intact.
Compact

Compact

  • Free up precious server or disk space, or both with our PDF compression.
  • Give email recipients a smaller file that doesn’t clog up their inbox.

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How to compress your PDF file:

  1. Open a PDF in Acrobat DC.
  2. Open the Optimize PDF tool to compress a PDF document. 
    Choose Tools > Optimize PDF or click on the tool from the right hand panel.
  3. Select Reduce File Size in the top menu.
  4. Set compatibility of Acrobat version and click OK.
    Default will be to the existing version.
  5. Set optional advanced optimization.
    Select Advanced Optimization in the top menu to make updates to image and font compression. Click OK when you are done modifications.
  6. Save your file
    Choose File > Save As. Keep the same file name to overwrite current file or rename the new file with the smaller PDF size. Select a location and click Save.

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Check out our online tool to quickly reduce the file size of your PDF so it's easier to send as an attachment. You can compress a PDF online right now using drag and drop in your browser.

 

Give it a try.


Check out our online tool to quickly reduce the file size of your PDF. It makes your file easier to send as an attachment — and you can do it right now in your browser.
 

Choose the Acrobat DC plan that works for you.

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    Reliably create, edit, and sign PDFs.
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    The complete PDF solution for any device.
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