You did not state the size of the pdf file. Windows does not have
much in the way of compression programs. I just checked on my Linux
machine, and a bz2 pdf file of 137K bunzips to 207K, so there it is
definitely possible to zip pdf files, at least with bzip2. The
problem is the recipient also has to use the same compression engine.
You could try ordinary zip for windows, if the file is not much larger
than your limit. I think zip does not compress as well as bzip2. I do
know bz2 is available for Windows, free at that, because I downloaded
it and tried it last fall. That version runs from the command prompt.
Nor did you say how the pdf file was produced. If you are making the
file, only make part of the document below the 12MB limit, that is,
send it in pieces.
A few years ago, my brother-in-law (COO of a small university) was
trying to print copies of a book the owner put on the Internet, but it
was set to reject printing, and those poor students simply could not
pay the large amount of money for Internet to stay on line to read an
entire book. So, I opened it in Linux Kghostview, and printed it for
him.
Alas, some pages had really bad defacing marks on them. So, I tried to
open the file in GIMP, the open source program that allegedly is
totally inferior to Photoshop, though there are graphic shops which
use GIMP.
To my surprise, GIMP opened the file into separate pages, I removed
the marks, and made clear copies. I did not figure out how to put it
back together.
If you need that capability, one would obtain Kanotix or Knoppix and
burn a CD, then boot on it and do your work without installing on your
HD. Those live CD's do all that stuff, if you can run them. |
