Soroush Javidi

I needed to create a PDF from a Word document recently and found that the resulting PDF was 12MB! I noticed that the images inside the document were the cause. In Word 2003 in Windows I know that there is a Compress Pictures button that will remove cropped areas and compress the image. I was using Word 2008 for Mac which unfortunately doesn't have this option. Also, the Print dialogue in Mac OS 10.5 doesn't provide a 'compress PDF' option as it did in 10.4. A search on the Internet gave the following options, which I would like to share here.