Why Compress PDF Files?
Before answering the question, "why compress PDF files," it is important to understand what PDF compression is. When you compress a PDF file, its file size decreases. PDF compression software works using either lossy or lossless algorithms; lossy algorithms result in impressive PDF size reduction but incur a loss of quality, whereas lossless algorithms preserve quality but cannot achieve the same compression as lossy ones.
Why Compressing PDF Files is Important
So, why compress PDF files? There are in fact many reasons why it is important to compress PDF files. PDF, although a very convenient format in many respects, can be extremely large. Large files take up a lot of disk space, especially if you have many of them; they are difficult to email because of long uploading and downloading times, if they are even small enough to fit under your email attachment size limit; and load very slowly on websites. These are the main reasons why compressing PDF files is important.
Compress PDF Files with PdfCompressor
Now that you have the answer to the question of why compress PDF files, you may be interested in finding good PDF compression software. CVISION's PdfCompressor can compress color PDF files to 1/100 of their original size, and also includes OCR to make your compressed PDFs text searchable. We offer a free trial of PdfCompressor so that you can see the benefits of compressing PDF files yourself. Just click the 'free downloads' button above.
