Mac pages undo reduce file size

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Thank you, Internet Citizen. Soooo helpful! This solution is brillant. I had a 4MB paper to turn in for class with lots of detailed images but it had to be less than 2MB when submitted. I created my own filter just as you described and it worked perfectly. My 4MB file was compressed to just KB and the images were still very clear.

I tried a shareware app that does the same thing and it took about 4 -5 minutes while direct from preview took under 1 min.

So of course I had to Google and found this handy post. Took seconds and worked like a charm! It took the nearly 40 mb PDF and reduced it to […]. I use JotNot on the iPhone to capture receipts for expense reports, but the files are huge.

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Any ideas for somebody like me? ShrinkIt is unfortunately not useful either. Fantastic, thanks! Much obliged to you. This worked perfectly for me on Mountain Lion. I export my pdf in preview to reduce the file size and the new saved file size is exactly the same size as the original? Your file size reduction filter worked beautifully.

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Just what I was looking for! Thank you very much!! Thank you thank you!

Gmail wont let you send files larger than 25mb so this comes in handy. Thank you — this has been so helpful and I appreciate you for posting it here for the rest of us! I tried this in Yosemite and it took a I borrowed these setting suggestions from meyerweb. In my case, using OS X After doing that the new filter showed up in Preview. This resulted in a 1. This was so helpful for me when I was creating my image-heavy portfolio! Thank you so much for a simple and elegant solution! E-mail required but not displayed. Management reserves the right to edit or remove any comment , especially when abusive or irrelevant to the topic at hand.

HTML allowed: If you're satisfied with what you've written, then go ahead Drop the unzipped. Rename the filter to whatever will help you remember its purpose. Thursday, February 25th, 1: This will come in handy for sure.

Nice trick though, that should come in handy someday. Great technique. Mind if I steal it for my conferences? PS — good luck in Seattle! Now I have have a 7Mb happy medium! Worked brilliant! I reduced a 5. Love it, worked well in Snow Leopard. Please advise. Great tip: Works perfectly! This worked successfully for me in OSX Awesome help for reducing PDF magazine sizes to fit on iPad, thanks very much!!!! Hey thanks, works really well. Thank you! A fantastic, yet little-known trick. Especially useful for scanned text.

Also, to disable and later re-enable SIP, follow these instructions: Name E-mail required but not displayed URI. Sidestep Next entry: Feeds Posts: RSS 2. Here's an example:. Note the spider web below the frog. Note that it says it "replaces" the original versions of the images.

Scarey thought, but not as permanent as it appears. The frog's snout is quite pixillated, and the web has almost disappeared, as has much of the texture of the frog's skin and of the rough-sawn cedar siding behind. If you act at this point, it is possible to undo the change—throwing out the edited image and replacing it with the original version. The option appears to remain available even after the document is Saved, but disappears when it has been Closed. That would make sense, as Saving both the reduced image and the full version would not result in a reduction in file size. But there's one other factor: When you drop an image onto a placeholder in Pages, the image that is inserted is a COPY of the original image file.

The editing referred to above is done with that copy, not with the original image file, which continues to exist, unchanged where it was before being inserted. To get the hi-res version back, then is a matter of dropping the original file onto the placeholder again.

Page content loaded. Oct 4, 8: Thanks Barry. Unfortunately I closed the files after reducing and saving. I'm encouraged that I will be able to replace images with original from iphoto.. Live and learn. Communities Contact Support. Sign in. Browse Search. Ask a question.