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for images reduce the size
or
if it is a black and white form there is NO need for it to be a Red Green Blue image
convert it to grayscale
or a 8 bit gif
The pdf file was received from another company not created/scanned by me. I have no way to recreate it. The file consists several pages. Can I split it into 2 pdf files?
@John VV was trying to steer you in the right direction. If you really need to reduce the size then you need to extract the image files and reduce their size to the smallest, but still legible, size. Then recreate the pdf using those smaller images. That will give you a smaller pdf. There are numerous tools to recreate a pdf from images.
Having read this I thought it was rather enlightening. I appreciate you finding the time and energy to put this content together. I once again find myself spending a lot of time both reading and posting comments. But so what, it was still worthwhile!.
The posts do try to serve others as well as the Original Poster (OP). We try to keep the technical threads follow up posts as close to the original question as possible.
It's a bit cumbersome with multi-page PDFs, but I've done this with *.PDFs that were too large in dimension so I could post them on a website:
import the page(s) into the GIMP,
resize and otherwise manipulate them as images,
save the separate images,
reassemble them in a word processor, such as LiberOffice, and save them in as many parts as you want.
I do know that rar compression program has the capability to splitting files into multiple parts during compression, but it requires a small registration fee. It's very popular on Usenet because of this feature. There is a Linux version available; it's strictly command line.
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