SOS: How to minimize a file size? / myLot

Philippines

June 24, 2019 3:47am CST

I downloaded a book online and I want to read it. Unfortunately though it is a PDF file I cannot open it because it is a large file. All I can do is to open it through Google Drive. That makes me sad because I can't read it offline. Do you have any idea how to minimize the file size?

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Aanshi Raghava

@Aansh13 (11406)

• New Delhi, India

24 Jun 19

Well, as far as I know you can't really reduce the size of the PDF file... Though as said by @mrki444 , you can try splitting it

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Mrki Krki

@mrki444 (15149)

• Croatia (Hrvatska)

24 Jun 19

PDF is already reduce type of file so it can be again reduced.

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Aanshi Raghava

@Aansh13 (11406)

• New Delhi, India

24 Jun 19

@mrki444 Oh that ways... Okay...

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Mrki Krki

@mrki444 (15149)

• Croatia (Hrvatska)

24 Jun 19

@Aansh13 I think you can find online splitter.

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Just an Ordinary Owl?

@owlwings (43910)

• Cambridge, England

24 Jun 19

There's nothing you can do to minimise the file size of a downloaded PDF file. Of course, you can use a 'zip' facility to compress the file, which will probably reduce the file size, but this won't help you when you come to open the file because the file would need to be uncompressed in order to be read.

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joy

@MGjhaud (23240)

• Philippines

24 Jun 19

Try Acrobat.

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Yanzalong

@yanzalong (18987)

• Indonesia

24 Jun 19

May your phone is incapable of opening large PDF file.

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Anna

@LadyDuck (472213)

• Switzerland

24 Jun 19

You cannot minimize a .pdf file, you can reduce images but not pdf or txt files.

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Valerie J. Routhieaux

@just4him (317385)

• Green Bay, Wisconsin

24 Jun 19

I don't think it's possible.

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KG & digits

@ichipink (541)

• Philippines

25 Jun 19

I'm not sure if it will work but you could try converting it to epub format. But you have to use an ebook reader so that you can open & read the file. What are you using to read? Maybe I can recommend some apps for you.