When Compress Images earns its place
Scanned pages and exported design files often store photographs at the full resolution of the original camera, which is wildly more detail than a printed page can show. Recompressing only those image objects brings the weight down to something sensible while leaving vector graphics, tables and the text layer at full fidelity, so the document still reads as a sharp professional document rather than a degraded photocopy. Because the rest of the structure is left alone, page numbers, links and form fields continue to behave normally.
Scanned pages and exported design files often store photographs at the full resolution of the original camera, which is wildly more detail than a printed page can show. Recompressing only those image objects brings the weight down to something sensible while leaving vector graphics, tables and the text layer at full fidelity, so the document still reads as a sharp professional document rather than a degraded photocopy. Because the rest of the structure is left alone, page numbers, links and form fields continue to behave normally.
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Compress Images in PDF — Reduce the weight of the pictures embedded in your PDF without re-exporting the document, keeping sharp text and clean page layout.