

Since PrimoPDF only appends, but cannot prepend or insert before or after a specific page, you have to get a bit creative if you have more sophisticated needs by “PDFing” existing PDFs, or creating PDFs multiple times according to the specific page ordering required. It will then give you a choice to override or append. To append something to another PDF using PrimoPDF, first initiate a create action as per normal, then when prompted to choose a file or filename, browse to the file to which you want to append (as if you are saving over it). One of the free PDF “printers”, PrimoPDF, can also concatenate PDFs. For me, other than creating PDFs, the PDF task I need to do most often is to concatenate them: adding appendices and other attachments to PDFs generated from other programs. There are a lot of free programs that can create PDFs. Unfortunately, it’s far from free, costing a few hundred dollars. Click "OK" and then save the optimized PDF in the Save dialog box that appears.Adobe Acrobat (not the reader) is the standard PDF editor and manipulator, enabling you to create PDFs, edit text and other elements in PDFs, delete, extract, and merge pages, grayscale PDFs, and much more. This minimizes resolution for all of the slow PDF's images.Ĭheck all check boxes in the Discard Objects, Discard User Data and Clean Up components to remove objects from the slow PDF. Acrobat displays controls for optimizing the component.Ĭlick the "Minimum" option from each Quality control, if you've clicked the Images component. For example, if you noted "Fonts" as the largest space consumer, click "Fonts" from the list of components. Jot down or memorize the component with the largest percentage and then click "OK."Ĭlick the name of the relevant component from PDF Optimizer's list of components.

This screen displays a list of PDF components and the percentage of space they consume in your slow PDF. Open a slow PDF in Acrobat, select the File menu and choose "Save As." Click "Optimized PDF" to display the PDF Optimizer dialog box.Ĭlick the "Audit" button to display the Audit Space dialog box.
