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[Axegrrl]

Perhaps print them to a Postscript file via a virtual printer, then distill the Postscript file.

In theory, you can install a printer driver for a Postscript-capable printer on your machine, specify that as the printer, and then select "print to file" to generate a Postscript file. Then use Acrobat Distiller to open the .ps file and generate the PDF.

Apologies for the lack of detail, but I don't know Publisher.

 

[Cergorach]

Axegrrl made a couple of good suggestions.

They were done in an old version of Publisher and they are terrible to try and work with. PDFs do not compress well at all. Any ideas?

If you still have a version of publisher that will open the file correctly, then you should be able to print. As Axegrrl said printing to postscript is an option, printing directly to pdf is another. Adobe Acrobat 5/6 should install a driver that allows you to print directly to pdf. After that it's only a matter of opening the pdf and either using the option "save as" or "Reduce File Size" (preffered).

This should get you some quick wins in file size, for more control use in Acrobat 6 Pro "Advanced -> PDF Optimizer" and take a look at the image options (chances are that the images are a tat bit big because the source file you where using images at print quality).

If you still have trouble with the file size (or you don't have the tools that i mentioned) i'm willing to take a look at the file and do it for you.