100KB is tiny. It's the size of a low-quality email attachment from 1999. Yet, some legacy systems still demand it. Reducing a modern PDF to 100KB requires aggressive optimization. Here is how to do it.

The Trade-off

To reach 100KB, you must accept some quality loss. Images might become slightly pixelated. This is normal and necessary. The goal is legibility, not beauty.

3 Tricks to Reach 100KB