PDFshrink - 4.5

Nice interface, easy to use, good documentation, gets the job done. Program provides easy set up for printing, web, and iPhone applications. However you can achieve similar results with the paid version of Adobe Acrobat. Just go to "save as", select "Adobe PDF Files, Optimized" and select "Settings". You will see options for the sampling, compression method, pixels per inch, and quality. Thus this software is useful only if you do not have the Adobe Acrobat Pro.

Any word on Leopard compatibility? The Apago website is mum.

While PDFShrink does indeed shrink PDF files, it pales in comparison to Acrobat. I ran a file (scanned and OCRed with ReadIris) through PDFShrink. The file was about 2.3MB to start. PDFShrink reduced it to 2.1MB. Acrobat 6 reduced it to 548K. I played around with the PDFShrink settings, but wasn't able to get the file much smaller than 2.1MB. Granted, I didn't try too hard.

So, PDFShrink is good if you don't already have Acrobat. If you do, it's a waste. And batch processing is really weak. Why can't I select a *FOLDER* and have it reduce all PDFs in the folder tree???

I just tried the demo by dropping a 6.3mb Acrobat 6.0 pdf on it in the demo email mode.
It got "shrunk" to 10.2mb. So I customized the settings to remove metadata only and the file "shrunk" to 12.4mb.

This is a joke right? This product didn't shrink my pdf. It doubled the size. Boy, I sure hope you guys posted the wrong build.

I purchased this for a client that regularly sends out multi-page PDFs created by iPhoto via email. The original files from iPhoto ranged from 11-13mb (3-4 page doc w/ 6 pics each). Using the ColorSync utility, I could get these files down to 3 or 4mb, but PDFshrink took it down to 500k (ebook resolution)! (If I selected "screen" resolution, it went down to 200k, but we needed to print them.) PDFshrink does what it promises and does it well. Give it a try!