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I have an A3 indesign file which is my portfolio and I'm needing to export a pdf which is suitable for an Job upload (max 8mb) but because its a3 its just too large, is there any way to export to an A4 pdf ? I really cant find any answers online.

Also how to reduce to size of a PDF without reducing its quality ?

holtii
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  • This question appears to be off-topic because it belongs on http://graphicdesign.stackexchange.com/ – Jongware May 09 '14 at 06:38
  • This site is about programming, hence your question is off-topic – David van Driessche May 09 '14 at 07:52
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    That said, the size of your PDF (file size) is not related to the size of the page. Instead, if the file size of your file is too big, you need to have a look at the PDF settings in InDesign you are using to export your file to PDF. More than likely changing the PDF settings to downsample or compress images differently will reduce the size of your PDF. That will bring some quality loss with it, but this is unavoidable. – David van Driessche May 09 '14 at 07:54
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    @DavidvanDriessche: only true if it actually contains raster images. Pure vector images cannot be lossy compressed. – Jongware May 09 '14 at 12:36
  • Good point and very correct! – David van Driessche May 09 '14 at 17:48

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As PDF is a vector based format, you can resize A3 to A4 without losing the fidelity. However, it will not reduce the size as well.

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