Adobe Reader 8 Professional

Have you always wondered how to reduce the size of a PDF file? Its not that hard. By reducing the size of PDF Files, you can save space and also its more convenient to copy on to a Flash Drive or attach with an email.

How to Reduce the Size of a PDF File
With Adobe Acrobat 8 Professional

1. Open the file you would like to reduce the size of with Adobe Acrobat 8 Professional. ( not Adobe Reader )
2. Once open, go to the menu bar at the top of the screen and click on the Document tab and a menu should drop down.
3. Go down to where it says “Reduce File Size” and click.
4. A Reduce File Size window should appear
5. Choose Acrobat 8.0 and later from the choices
6. Click OK
7. You will be asked to Save the Reduced file
8. Type in Desired name for the file and hit Save

Reduce file size by saving

You can sometimes reduce the file size of a PDF simply by using the Save As command. Reducing the size of PDFs improves their performance—particularly when they’re being accessed on the web—without altering their appearance.
The Reduce File Size command resamples and recompresses images, removes embedded fonts, compresses document structure, and cleans up elements such as invalid bookmarks. If the file size is already as small as possible, this command has no effect.Note: Reducing the file size of a digitally signed document removes the signature.

1. Choose Document > Reduce File Size.
2. Select the version compatibility that you need, and click OK.If you’re certain that all your users use Acrobat 8 or Adobe Reader 8, limiting compatibility to the latest version can further reduce file size.
   If you want to control changes and quality trade-offs, use PDF Optimizer, which makes more options available.
   Note: If you select Acrobat 4.0 And Later, and the document contains transparency, the transparency is flattened.

Rotating Individual/Select Pages in a .pdf File

Have you ever scanned something via the ScanSnap only to find that it randomly chose several pages to orientate differently? Well, with a little extra work, you can remove those minor annoyances with ease.

1) Open up Adobe Acrobat 8 Professional or the .pdf file that you wish to edit.
(NOTE: If you simply open the .pdf make sure that it says “Adobe Acrobat Professional” in the title bar, using only a .pdf reader like Adobe Reader will not allow you to rotate individual pages)

2) If you opened up Adobe Acrobat 8 Professional, open the .pdf file.
3) Go through the file and see what page numbers (in the .pdf) you want to rotate. Write them down if necessary.
4) In the menu bar, click on Document and Rotate Pages…
5) A menu will pop up.

At the top, use the drop-down menu to choose whether you want to rotate the pages clockwise (to the right) or counter-clockwise (to the left). Then click on the Pages bubble (or a more relevant bubble) and enter the range of pages to rotate. Click OK.
6) Repeat Step 5 until all pages have the orientation that you desire
7) Be sure to save the file.
OR

If all the pages that are rotated improperly are of the same orientation (i.e. several turned counter-clockwise 90o) you can simplify Step 5 by

5) On the last drop-down menu, select Landscape Pages if you want all of the pages to be in portrait orientation (word default) or Portrait Pages if you want them all to be orientated in landscape.