Compressing
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Where: Tools › Compress; document menu (⋮) › PDF tools and signing › PDF tools › Compress.
Makes the file smaller for email and WhatsApp. As you change the settings, the "Estimated result" line shows the new size and how many percent smaller it will be, live; while compressing, the size so far and the expected result are shown too.
- 1"I'll adjust it": choose Quality (Smallest, Balanced, Sharp) and Resolution (dpi). On the phone, with "Keep text" on only images are compressed and the text stays sharp and selectable; if you turn it off, pages are turned into images and the file gets much smaller, but the text can't be selected.
- 2"Target size": under "At most" choose 200 KB, 500 KB, 1 MB, 2 MB or 5 MB, or type your own such as "750 KB" or "1.5 MB". finds the best setting that fits the target by itself (on the phone it tries keeping the text first) and says which setting it chose. If the result exceeds the target it compresses a little more and tries again. If the document can't get that small, it tells you the smallest size it can reach.
- 3Tap "Compress". The result becomes a new document with the "(small)" suffix and the old / new size is shown; if there is no noticeable gain it warns you.
It is free. Web: On quillo.tr pages are always compressed by turning them into images (the text can't be selected); everything happens in the browser and the document does not go to the server.
iPhone: With "Keep text" on, images are compressed with iOS's own compression (Quality and Resolution are hidden in that case); with it off, pages are turned into images at the quality and dpi you choose. With a target size it tries keeping the text first.

