From: tempest@ina.com   
      
   Paul, you were so helpful that I thought I would let you know that I   
   finally got everything going last night.  It took until the wee hours,   
   but I did it all in Master PDF Editor.  I simply kept exporting test   
   images until when re-merged into a new PDF, the total size was under 100   
   MB.  There was very little quality lost in the end.  I ran the OCR once   
   completed and then re-saved.   
      
   I should point out that OCR did interfere with everything I was trying   
   to do and would show itself in strange ways either with error messages,   
   weird characters over the images, etc.  The solution was simply not to   
   run it and then save until all the resizing was completed.   
      
   Even learning the aforementioned, this is something I hope to not to   
   have to do again for a while.  Years ago, I owned one of the versions of   
   Adobe Pro under Windows.  A simple "pdf flatten" would have been all I   
   would have had to do and no further headaches, but those days are long   
   gone.  Master PDF Editor has a flatten function available, but only for   
   the registered version.  Go figure.  Thanks again for your help.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
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