VirtualKansas
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mass shrink of .pdf files
Have ~19,000 .pdf files accumulated over two years of a project. Now, need to archive but retain quality.
Total size for data store is ~20GB's, Would be great to get to less than 2GB's. Typically files will shrink 10x when using Acrobat Pro, but need to do all 19,000 files "at once", or at least automagically.
Solving the 19,000 files is the question, but better yet if there is a systematic way to routinely shrink files for the next project as they're created? Bonus if so...
TY
Total size for data store is ~20GB's, Would be great to get to less than 2GB's. Typically files will shrink 10x when using Acrobat Pro, but need to do all 19,000 files "at once", or at least automagically.
Solving the 19,000 files is the question, but better yet if there is a systematic way to routinely shrink files for the next project as they're created? Bonus if so...
TY
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Weird. Just tested and it only asked me about the input folder and the output one. No other prompts.
Do you, by any chance, have "Prompt user" checked on the first step?
PS: As for not having the "do you want to save changes" prompt, simply use "The same folder selected at start" on the last step ("Save to") and check "Overwrite existing files"
Do you, by any chance, have "Prompt user" checked on the first step?
PS: As for not having the "do you want to save changes" prompt, simply use "The same folder selected at start" on the last step ("Save to") and check "Overwrite existing files"
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Dan, you've been great and I've had a hard time staying on this task.
Let's close this out with my thanks and I'll follow your lead.
Appreciate your responsiveness and thorough suggestions...
Let's close this out with my thanks and I'll follow your lead.
Appreciate your responsiveness and thorough suggestions...
Glad I could help!
ASKER
Set the job up on a test location (an NFS.) Setting make sense for the most part, but am getting prompted for "save as" type settings (i.e. what version and "do you want to save changes...") prompts. I found the tick box, to eliminate version setting prompt, but how to tell Pro to simply save the file for each to avoid having a prompt at each of 19k documents?
Thank you for help, this is a valuable exercise. BTW on Adobe Pro XI