This paper studies the adiabatic soliton compression of pulses in dispersion dec reasing fibers(DDF).We indicate that although high quality compressed pulse coul d be achieved from ps fundamental soliton by using DDF with linear profile,the r equired fiber length is too long to be useful.As a result,higher order soliton c ompression in DDF is proposed to achieve large compression factor and high quali ty compression with relatively short fiber lengths.