Frequently Asked Question:

Reduce File Size

Question

What is the equivalent method for Acrobat's Reduce File Size menu option, found on the Document menu? CompressContent, CompressImages CompressFonts don't seem to work.

I'm simply opening a PDF and assigning a Master Password, but would like to shrink the document. Acrobat can take a 1.5mb doc and reduce it to just under 200k. I would like it if QuickPDF could do the same.

Thanks, Dan

Answer

Currently Quick PDF Library does not include much functionality that will let you reduce the file size. The CompressContent, CompressImages and CompressFonts functions do work, but only in limited scenarios. For example, when adding a TIFF or BMP image to a PDF you can call CompressImages to compress the image data that's being added to the document.

In the future we hope to add more functionality that will help reduce file sizes.