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How to reduce a Trademark Office TDR file?s size

By nipper

I downloaded an Office Action via TDR earlier today, saved it to my server, and went to email it to a client.  Only then did I realize the Action (60 pages long with 55+ pages of color website printouts) was 22MB in size.  Ouch. In that many email servers bounce any attachments bigger than 5MB, I needed to figure out how to convert the file to grayscale.  Luckily, I found instructions (see: Tips & Techniques: Convert a color PDF to grayscale in Acrobat 9). In a nutshell, Open the PDF in Acrobat 9 Pro. Select “Advanced,” then “Print Production,” then “Preflight.” Select the “PDF fixups dropdown.” Select “Convert to grayscale,” then the “Analyze and fix” button. Voila! Ok…so it didn’t totally fix my issue this time, it only dropped the file size from 22MB to 11MB…but it is a start...continue to full post

Full post as published by Invent Blog on April 06, 2009 (boomark / email).