Reducing Bloated Illustrator Files

A tip coming from Anne-Marie "HerGeekness" Concepcion.

In "Illustrator CS, you could run a built-in Action meant for just this task:

1. With your bloated file open, open the Actions palette (from the Window menu).
2. Select the tenth one down, Delete Unused Palette Items, and Play it.
3. If you've already saved the file, do a Save As and overwrite the previous file.

Running this action and overwriting the file reduced my original rectangle.ai file from 436K to a far more palatable 120K. Woo-hoo!"

This could really be a space saver if all my Illustrator files were re-saved without the unused palettes.....