<div dir="ltr">Yeah, I tried that, too. As you said, the difference was fairly minimal. I am hoping that the next time I create the generated files that things clear up, since they'll essentially be "from scratch". Possibly when I was doing work elsewhere in the document, they got caught in an edit they shouldn't have.<br><br><br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Feb 18, 2015 at 2:31 PM, David Boss <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:bosscomm@rogers.com" target="_blank">bosscomm@rogers.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div link="blue" vlink="purple" lang="EN-CA"><div><p class="MsoNormal"><a name="14b9e2ca8771375c__MailEndCompose"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1f497d">Don't remove "Links, actions and javascripts" and the bookmarks will be retained. <u></u><u></u></span></a></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1f497d">Unfortunately, although it can reduce file size by up to 70% in my experience, sometimes the reduction is minimal.<u></u><u></u></span></p><span class=""><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1f497d"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1f497d">David<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1f497d"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:7.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1f497d" lang="EN-US">Boss Communications / Boss Photographic<u></u><u></u></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><a href="http://www.bosscommunications.com/" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:7.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif" lang="EN-US">www.bosscommunications.com</span></a><span style="font-size:7.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1f497d" lang="EN-US"> / </span><a href="http://www.bossphotographic.com" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:7.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif" lang="EN-US">www.bossphotographic.com</span></a><span style="font-size:7.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1f497d" lang="EN-US"><u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1f497d"><u></u> <u></u></span></p></span><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif" lang="EN-US">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif" lang="EN-US"> Lin Sims [mailto:<a href="mailto:ljsims.ml@gmail.com" target="_blank">ljsims.ml@gmail.com</a>] <br><b>Sent:</b> February-18-15 2:16 PM<br><b>To:</b> David Boss<br><b>Cc:</b> Frame Users<span class=""><br><b>Subject:</b> Re: FM12: PDF file size exploding<u></u><u></u></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><div><p class="MsoNormal">Thanks for the tip. I tried removing everything but the metadata (which was only the doc title), but it only trimmed about 2Mb off and took the bookmarks with it. <u></u><u></u></p></div><div><div class="h5"><div><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><div><p class="MsoNormal">On Wed, Feb 18, 2015 at 1:36 PM, David Boss <<a href="mailto:bosscomm@rogers.com" target="_blank">bosscomm@rogers.com</a>> wrote:<u></u><u></u></p><blockquote style="border:none;border-left:solid #cccccc 1.0pt;padding:0cm 0cm 0cm 6.0pt;margin-left:4.8pt;margin-right:0cm"><p class="MsoNormal">Try Tools > Protection > Remove Hidden Information. Even if you only select<br>something like Hidden text,  it removes a lot of other things like reader<br>extensions, review and forms workflows, and information added by third-party<br>applications.  It can reduce the file size significantly.<br><br>David<br><br>Boss Communications / Boss Photographic<br><a href="http://www.bosscommunications.com" target="_blank">www.bosscommunications.com</a> / <a href="http://www.bossphotographic.com" target="_blank">www.bossphotographic.com</a><br><br><br><br>_______________________________________________<br><br><br>You are currently subscribed to framers as <a href="mailto:ljsims.ML@gmail.com" target="_blank">ljsims.ML@gmail.com</a>.<br><br>Send list messages to <a href="mailto:framers@lists.frameusers.com" target="_blank">framers@lists.frameusers.com</a>.<br><br>To unsubscribe send a blank email to<br><a href="mailto:framers-unsubscribe@lists.frameusers.com" target="_blank">framers-unsubscribe@lists.frameusers.com</a><br>or visit <a href="http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/ljsims.ml%40gmail.com" target="_blank">http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/ljsims.ml%40gmail.com</a><u></u><u></u></p><div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><br>Send administrative questions to <a href="mailto:listadmin@frameusers.com" target="_blank">listadmin@frameusers.com</a>. Visit<br><a href="http://www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