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PDFshrink

PDFshrink - 4.5

PDF file security & size reduction.

All Time: (4.1)
This Version: Not rated (0.0)
Current Version: 4.5
Release Date: 2009-01-07
License: Update
Downloads (this version): 5,270
Downloads (all versions): 4,445
Price: $35.00

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PDFshrink Reviewgood but probably not necessary - Version: 4.5, 9/5/2009 06:52PM PST

tokunagaa002
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.
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PDFshrink CommentaryDownload doesn't work - Version: 4.2, 1/15/2008 12:00AM PST

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weasel-boy
Website doesn't have 4.2 available either.
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PDFshrink Troubleshooting ReportLeopard compatibility - Version: 4.1.1, 11/13/2007 11:03AM PST

nolamike
Any word on Leopard compatibility? The Apago website is mum.
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PDFshrink ReviewDid it job well - Version: 4.1.1, 8/17/2007 06:40AM PST

grotsasha
Shrunk my scanned sketches (which consisted mainly of hand-written text on a white paper + some diagrams on a white background) from 11 MB to 860 K without loosing any quality. Excellent.
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PDFshrink ReviewNothing special if you already have Acrobat - Version: 4.1.1, 3/12/2007 07:40PM PST

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robbyx--2008
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???
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PDFshrink ReviewPDF Shrink Version 3.1.2 - Version: 3.0.4, 1/11/2007 09:22AM PST

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Jane21
LOVE this tiny giant of an application.

It reduced an 87.2M file to a mere 777k.

It also batch processed 10 files of about the same size in less than 10 minutes.

Can't live without it!
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PDFshrink ReviewNot so sure about this product. - Version: 4.1, 1/9/2007 11:12AM PST

weasel-boy
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.
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PDFshrink ReviewFriggin' Great!! - Version: 4.0b1, 2/8/2005 09:38AM PST

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monti
that's what I got:
17:41 - 02/08/05
Processor - Screen
File - /Users/Max/Desktop/Entwurf china Wirtschaft-screen.pdf
Time - 1.30 secs
Original Size - 3.0 MB
Enhanced Size - 212.4 KB
Savings - 93.06% <---- AMAZING!!!!!
Warnings:

Status - Completed.
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PDFshrink ReviewIncredibly useful and excellent at what it does! - Version: 4.0b1, 2/5/2005 10:00AM PST

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OrangeHB
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!
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PDFshrink ReviewA great little application - Version: 4.0b1, 7/11/2004 06:30AM PST

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spollak
PDFshrink does what it advertises - much better than anything else I've tried. Unfortunately, Adobe Acrobat Professional 6.02 crashed every time I tried to compress my .pdfs. But not PDFshrink. Reducing a 17MB file to 1.5MB, while retaining document clarity, is what I was after and what PDFshrink delivered. Thanks!
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