Hi, this is Anne with Graphic Design How-To, and today I'm going to show you three ways to
compress your PDF file size. The reason I'm showing you three ways is that if
you see this video years from now, maybe a couple of those ways might not be available.
Alright, let's get started. [Music] Now i f you have an Adobe Creative Cloud
subscription, you can just skip to the minute and second on your screen. This PDF compressor
is free with a subscription. But if you don't have Creative Cloud, the first one I recommend
is Smallpdf.com. And by the way, I will list all of these in the description below the video.
SMALL PDF: So here is Smallpdf.com. Now, you'll see "free trial" over here,
but we don't need that. We can come right up here and go to "compress". I'm going to choose files,
and I have a menu here. I'm going to hit the spacebar so you can see what this is.
It's Rosati's of Overland Park, it's a pretty image-heavy menu. So right now, it's 12.6 MBs. I'm
going to choose open, and it might take a second to upload. And here's our result. It saved us 75%
and ended up as three megabytes, which is pretty dang good. So I'll download this. And the thing
about this site, you'll need to wait about 12 minutes between files. So if you have a bunch of
files to do, this probably isn't the best option, but it's great for just one. I'm going to go out
to my finder, and here is the downloaded version. I'm going to open it up in Acrobat, and we can
take a look at the quality that way. So I've got this at 125%, and now I'll open the original.
And honestly, this image wasn't great to begin with, so I really can't tell much
of a difference between the 3 megabyte version and the 12 megabyte version as far as quality
is concerned. So that's your first option. Ilovepdf.com. The second site for compressing
images is ilovepdf.com. I'll come over here to compress PDF, select PDF files,
and then I'm going to use that same menu that we used on Smallpdf.com. Now, ilovepdf.com is
nice because you get some options on how much you want to compress it. First, I'll go with
recommended compression, and we'll compress it. And on this site, it actually reduced the file
size a little bit further than the other site. And then we'll click "download compressed PDF".
Now, this is interesting because it actually comes up to 3.1 megabytes instead of 2.9 like I said,
but I'm still happy with that. And when I compare quality, I can't see a difference. This time I'm
going to try extreme compression, so I'll choose that one and then "compress PDF". Okay, this time
it says it got it under a megabyte, so I'm going to come out. Yes, so we've got 805 kilobytes.
I'm going to open this one up in Acrobat and see if there's a big difference in quality on this.
Okay, so here's the original, and it looks like anything that's vector-like text turns out fine,
but images are pretty degraded in this extreme compression version.
So you can see the logo here does not look good compared to the original. So in this case,
I would just use regular compression, but it will depend on the actual PDF you're using.
So, you can try the extreme one on your PDF and see if you're losing a lot of quality
like we did here. Adobe's PDF compressor, and this is only quote free to you if you have an
Adobe subscription, so I'm not really sure it counts. But since most of us are probably
graphic designers, you probably will have a subscription. Now, I like this version
the best because Adobe is the company that makes Adobe Acrobat and who invented PDFs. So anyway,
I trust Adobe. If you have a pop-up blocker on though, you will need to turn that off. Usually,
that's going to be an extension right up here. Okay, so let's see how this one does. We'll select
a file. I'm going to choose the same file. Now, we do get some options here, but you'll notice 3.9 is
as small as it goes, and we also have a mid-range option of 7.3 megabytes, and then a 9.3. But we'll
do the 3.9. Now, I assume this was free, but it is. You can save your file if you're signed in,
but anyone can download their file. So let's see how it did. It said it was going to be three,
but it actually came out to 1.1. So let's see the quality here. All the vector things like text look
good, but this logo does seem a little blurry. So let's look at the original. This is so much
better, and this one, of course, is blurry. So let's try a better option. It does say estimated
3.9. We got it down to one here. So maybe this one will actually come in at around three megabytes,
which the quality is really good on the other two sites I showed you. We'll go ahead and compress.
Now, this is making me sign in, and when I first tested this, I also had to sign in. So
I find it strange that I didn't have to sign in for the very compressed version. I'm going to go
ahead and sign in with an account that I know does not have a Creative Cloud subscription.
Okay, so even without a Creative Cloud subscription, I'm able to use this as long
as I have an account with Adobe, which is free. And if you've gotten this far, it's under convert.
So you'll go to convert and compress a PDF. Okay, let's try this again. We're going with medium this
time and compress. Okay, and now I'll download it. Now, this one came to 4.6 megabytes. I'll open it,
and the quality here is very nice. So even though it's a little bit bigger file size than the other
two sites I showed you, I do trust them more as a company than these random websites that
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