How to compress a PDF for email without wrecking quality
Shrink a PDF for email or portal caps in your browser. Balanced mode keeps text selectable; Maximum goes smallest.
- Open Compress PDF and add your file.
- Pick Balanced to hit a size target with the least quality loss — text stays selectable.
- Or pick Maximum if you need the smallest file and can accept pages as images.
- Compress, compare the before/after sizes, then download.
Balanced requantises photos in the JPEG coefficient domain when possible — it does not decode and re-encode every image for a generation loss.
When the file will not shrink
Some PDFs are already lean. The tool reports the real saving instead of faking a reduction. Try Maximum only if you accept losing selectable text.