Optimising with Quality

I was recently sent a PDF file with three pages. I need to split this into 3
individual pages. The original file is 35kb but each file I produce is several hundred kb

Step 1: STOP. Do not use Photoshop!

The PDF you were sent probably came from a word-processing or page layout program. You need to use Adobe Acrobat–the full version–to split it.

When you open a PDF in Photoshop, the entire page becomes one single image. If the page was not an image before, then the Photoshop version will be much, much, much bigger.

Think of it this way: Let’s say you open Notepad and type the word "hello." The file is very small–only a few bytes.

Now let’s say you print out the word "hello" and scan it into your computer. The scan is huge.

Effectively, that is what you are doing. You are turning the PDF into a picture, just like when you print a page and scan it, you are turning the page into a picture.

Don’t use Photoshop–it only works with pictures. Use Acrobat.

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