11.2.1 for Windows

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Discard all comments, forms and multimedia: Removes all comments, forms, form
fields, and multimedia from the document.
Discard external cross references: Removes links to other documents, not including
the links that go to pages within the PDF.
Discard document information and metadata: Removes data in the document
information dictionary and all metadata streams, such as the information in the File >
Properties > Description.
Discard file attachments: Removes all file attachments, including the attachments
that are added to the PDF as comments.
Discard private data of other applications: Removes the information in PDF
documents that is related only to the application that created the PDF documents.
Discard hidden layer content and flatten visible layers: Remove all layers
information. All layers in the Layers panel will be removed.
Clean Up
Use the Clean Up panel to remove useless items (obsolete or unnecessary elements)
from the document. Removing certain elements can seriously affect the functionality
of the PDF. By default, only elements that do not affect document functionality are
selected.
Use Flate to encode streams that are not encoded: Applies the Flate compression
to all streams that aren’t encoded in the document.
In streams that use LZW encoding, use Flate instead: Applies the Flate
compression to all content streams and images that use LZW encoding in the
document.
Remove invalid bookmarks: Removes invalid bookmarks that go to the pages that
have been deleted in the document.
Remove invalid links: Removes links that jump to the destinations that no longer
exist.
Discard unreferenced named destinations: Discards named destinations that are
not being referenced internally from within the document.
Optimize the PDF for fast web view: Restructures the document for page-at-a-time
downloading from web servers, which allows users to open and view the PDF even