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PDF Compression Guides
The full, step-by-step walkthroughs — pick the one that matches the job in front of you.
The guides are the long-form, do-it-with-me tutorials. Where a cluster page answers a quick question — "which mode for under 5MB?" — a guide walks you through a whole task from start to finish, with the gotchas called out before you hit them. If you want the unhurried version with every step, you're in the right place.
Pick a guide by the job in front of you: emailing a file that just bounced, reducing a PDF's size in general, or choosing the right settings when you genuinely aren't sure which to use. Each one is self-contained, so you can land on it straight from a search and follow it start to finish without reading anything else first. Every guide ends where it should — at the tool, with the mode it recommends ready to go — so you're never left guessing what to click.
The guides distinguish a transformed delivery copy from an original kept unchanged. Rasterisation removes selectable text, OCR, interactive fields, accessibility structure and digital signatures. Size reduction and target attainment are checked separately, and you choose when to download. The guides also explain when keeping the original or changing the delivery method is the more useful answer.
Choose a walkthrough.
Follow a task from the original file to a result you can review.
| Your situation | Guide | What to expect |
|---|---|---|
| My email bounced — walk me through fixing it | How to compress a PDF for email Coming soon | Step-by-step from an oversized PDF to a sent message, including the total-attachment-size trap that catches everyone. |
| I just need this PDF smaller | How to reduce PDF size Coming soon | A general size-reduction workflow for any PDF, with the step-down strategy and what to do when it won't shrink. |
| I don't know which setting to pick | Best settings for PDF compression Coming soon | How to match a mode to your file: print versus screen, scan versus export, sensitive versus routine. |
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