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All -

BitsDuJour.com is offering FILEminimizer PDF V7 for free (yes, FREE!) for the next 15 hours by going .

Before posting this I bit the bullet (yeah, pun intended!) by downloading and registering the software (painless), then trying it on a 363mb PDF file I have (scanned structural calcs w/ some details). It took 20~30 minutes of chugging on the file but it compressed it to a final 47mb size (87%!). I then tried it on a 47mb PDF set of drawings generated out of DataCAD - it took +/-2 minutes and reduced it to 25mb (53%). I honestly can't see any degradation in the resolution in either reduced file.

Hope this helps someone else!

Thanks Alan!!!

Dave

For anyone who may have missed out, the offer has been extended for another 14 hours - so go get it now if you didn't before!

It seems to do a decent job reducing PDF file sizes maybe 20-25% or so (have tried maybe 1/2 dozen projects with it) but warning that you'll be spammed with multiple/daily emails for BitsDuJour.com products... Nothings free I guess! Full version of Adobe Acrobat v9 is around $80 and does a better job, without the spamail IMHO - rd

T'ain't nuttin free - you pay one way or another.

Whenever I find these "free" items I always unsubscribe with the first e-mail unless it's something that really piques my interest.