So I'll Quit ColorSync Utility and I will open up the original PDF again. So now that should be Saved automatically. That should give us some decent compression without getting rid of quality. I'm going to go somewhere between halfway and all the way. Then I'm going to set Image Compression to be JPEG and set the Quality to something better than this middle. Then I'm going to click here and I'm going to go to Image Effects Component and Image Compression. I'll hit the Plus button here and I have one called Reduce PDF File Size Better. Here you'll see the filters that you saw there when you were exporting from Preview. It comes with your Mac so just Search in Spotlight for ColorSync Utility and go to Filters. For that you need to use an app called ColorSync Utility. Now those quartz filters are things that you can create. So it compressed it a little bit too much. But if I look at it I can see the quality is pretty bad now. Do Command i and I'll see that it's 55KB. I'll hit Save and let's look at that file. So now when I save it out I'm going to save it with another file name. So you want to make sure you selected PDF as the Format and Quartz Filter has Reduce File Size by Default as a filter. You'll get an option here for Quartz Filter. All you need to do to compress this is go to File and then Export. So let's go and open it up in Preview by simply double clicking it. I'm going to do Command i to get information and see that it's 6.8 MB. The file size is a little bit bigger than I like. I can open it up and you can see it's just a sample electric bill. So here I've got a sample PDF on my desktop. I'll show you how to build something in Automator that could do it quickly and also allow you to customize the compression. However the image compression settings aren't the greatest and it takes several steps. You can simply open them up in Preview and there's a special way to export them that compresses the images inside them. You don't need anything special to be able to compress PDF files on your Mac. MacMost is brought to you thanks to a great group of supporters. Today let me show you several methods of compressing PDF files on your Mac.
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