I need to upload my design portfolio to an application portal that has a strict 10 MB limit, and right now the PDF is sitting at 28 MB. I tried a random online compressor, but it made all the images look terribly pixelated and blurry. How can I shrink the file size on my Mac while keeping the graphics sharp?
had the same thing last month with a planner i was uploading. tbh i just resized the images in photos first then exported a fresh pdf from whatever i designed it in. kept the graphics looking good and dropped the size a lot. if you still have the source files i’d try that