Compress PDF to a file size
Try progressively smaller PDF candidates and download one only when its actual size fits your limit.
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How to use this tool
- Choose the local file you want to use for compress pdf to a file size.
- Adjust the labelled settings, then run the tool. Try progressively smaller PDF candidates and download one only when its actual size fits your limit.
- Review the result before copying or downloading it. Clear the tool when finished.
Things to know
- Maximum 50 MiB per PDF, 100 MiB combined and 500 pages. Encrypted documents are unsupported. Page composition preserves visible page content, not document-level forms, bookmarks or attachments. Newly added text uses standard Latin PDF fonts. PDF objects, final PDF output, ZIP exports and rasterized compression candidates are limited to 64 MiB before final packaging. Text extraction is limited to 4 MiB of characters. Editing and attachment extraction limit decoded streams to 32 MiB each, 128 MiB combined, 100000 objects, one million parsed values and 128 nesting levels.
- Up to 20 pages. Tries 150 to 50 DPI and lower JPEG quality. Inspect readability. No fitting candidate means an error, not an oversized download. An original already within the limit is returned unchanged.
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