Acrobat dc will not reduce file size

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    2021 Adobe Acrobat DC — Can't No Longer Reduce File Size

    /t5/acrobat-discussions/2021-adobe-acrobat-dc-can-t-no-longer-reduce-file-size/td-p/11885837 Mar 10, 2021 Mar 10, 2021

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    Has the feature to save a PDF as a reduced file size been removed from the latest version of the program?? Or did it get moved and I just can't find it?

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    Mar 10, 2021 Mar 10, 2021 Dov Isaacs • , Mar 10, 2021 Mar 10, 2021

    The feature was absolutely not removed and the response of @GEO14 is wrong.

    You access the file reduction feature via File=>Reduce File Size
    or File=>Save as Other=>Reduced Size PDF.

    That having been said, a safer and more flexible approach is to use
    File=>Save as Other=>Optimized PDF which allows you to customize the parameters for file size reduction, avoiding some operations that although they reduce file size, may make the resultant file effectively unusable. The Optimized PDF option also

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    It was not removed.

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    /t5/acrobat-discussions/2021-adobe-acrobat-dc-can-t-no-longer-reduce-file-size/m-p/11886019#M302135 Mar 10, 2021 Mar 10, 2021

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    I noticed the same thing the other day, how ever I managed to find a workaround.

    1. Close the document

    2. Open Acrobat DC (do not open the document you want to reduce)

    3. Go to File, Save as Other, Reduce Size PDF

    4. Drop your files in the "Arrange documents" folder or select Add Files

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    /t5/acrobat-discussions/2021-adobe-acrobat-dc-can-t-no-longer-reduce-file-size/m-p/11887228#M302216 Mar 10, 2021 Mar 10, 2021

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    The feature was absolutely not removed and the response of @GEO14 is wrong.

    You access the file reduction feature via File=>Reduce File Size
    or File=>Save as Other=>Reduced Size PDF.

    That having been said, a safer and more flexible approach is to use
    File=>Save as Other=>Optimized PDF which allows you to customize the parameters for file size reduction, avoiding some operations that although they reduce file size, may make the resultant file effectively unusable. The Optimized PDF option also has a feature whereby you can “audit” the PDF file to see where the space in the existing PDF file is used, % and bytes used for images, fonts, etc., such that you can properly decide what is really a candidate for PDF file reduction.

    Note that one cannot legislate PDF file size. At some point, you simply cannot reduce a PDF file's size without dramatically messing up the visual quality of the content.