Need Help Compressing Mass Amounts of PDFs

[samcar455]

I have PDF Xchange 4 Pro (updated. just checked) and I would like to compress large PDFs (1-10 MBs) down to at the most, 1 MB. I read that printing to a pdf from a pdf compresses well. So I tried it, and it compressed a 10 MB pdf to roughly a MB. The problem is, I have roughly 1000 PDFs to compress. Is there a way to batch print these files while keeping the same file names? (I would use a different location than the source location so I can keep the same filenames.)

[Paul - PDF-XChange]

Hi samcar455,

the End User print driver is not really set up to accept large batches like this, mostly because it is a printer and uses the Windows Print subsystem to queue the print jobs. We cannot manage that.

You could select a number of PDF files in Windows Explorer and using the right button context menu select Print --> PDF-XChange and it will queue those files. You would need to either specify a save path in the Driver before hand or select a location for each file. Not really great for 1000+ PDFs I must admit. Also I don't know what the limit would be on how many PDFs you could do at a time this way - that is handled by Windows.

In the future we will be creating a plugin for the PDF-XChange Viewer that will allow you to optimize your PDFs this way - though how that will work with large numbers of files is yet to be determined.

hth

[samcar455]

Thanks for the response. And I'll admit a thousand is a bit of an overstatement. But I am talking in the hundreds.

Is there a way to compress the PDFs with PDF Xchange through another method? (Hopefully one that will accept batches).

[Paul - PDF-XChange]

Hi again samcar455,

at this point we do not have an End User product that will do this other than what I've detailed already. Select a number of files in Explorer and print them to the driver.

hth

[samcar455]

Hi again samcar455,

at this point we do not have an End User product that will do this other than what I've detailed already. Select a number of files in Explorer and print them to the driver.

hth

Thank you very much for the quick response. The forums here are well run.

[Paul - PDF-XChange]

Thanks for the kind words samcar455,

do let us know if there is anything more we can do for you.