


REDUCING PDF FILE SIZE MAC MAC OS
Choose Export (or Save As if you have on older version of Mac OS X) in the File menu,.

Open a PDF file using Apple's Preview app,."Macintosh HD/Library/Filters/Reduce to 150 dpi average quality - STANDARD COMPRESSION.qfilter" If you are running an earlier vesion of OS X (10.6.x or earlier), then you should put the downloaded filters in "Macintosh HD/Library/Filters" and you should have for example one file with the following path:."Macintosh HD/Library/PDF Services/Reduce to 150 dpi average quality - STANDARD COMPRESSION.qfilter" Once you put the downloaded filters there, you should have for example one file with the following path: This folder should already exist and contain files. If you are running Lion or Mountain Lion (OS X 10.7.x or 10.8.x) then you should put the downloaded filters in "Macintosh HD/Library/PDF Services".If it is different, just replace "Macintosh HD" with the name of your startup disk. This assumes that your startup disk's name is "Macintosh HD". Here is the appropriate location for the filters: Unzip the downloaded file and copy the filters in the appropriate location (see below).Download the filters here: zip%20and%20put%20in%20your%20Library%20folder%29.zip.Since quite a few people have found it useful and keep asking questions about the download location and destination of the filters, which have changed since 2007, I decided to write this update, and put it in this more current forum. I still use it every day, although I have Acrobat Pro as part of Adove Creative Cloud subscription. This is a simple and free solution I found to reduce the file size of PDFs in OS X, without the high cost and awful UI of Acrobat Pro, and with acceptable quality.
REDUCING PDF FILE SIZE MAC MAC OS X
Note: this is a copy and update of a 5 year old discussion in the Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard discussions which you can find here:
