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Email file size limits, slow upload speeds, storage quotas — there are plenty of reasons to compress a PDF. The challenge is doing it without turning your crisp document into a blurry mess.
The bad news: most PDF compression tools work by aggressively downsampling images until your 200dpi diagram looks like it was scanned on a 2003 photocopier...
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Sara M.
Document productivity specialist and freelance technical writer. Previously at Adobe.
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