It's great for beginners. Then it turns into a mess.
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Copyright 2015 Matthew Brush | |
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copy of this software and associated documentation files (the | |
"Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including | |
without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, | |
distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to | |
permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to | |
the following conditions: |
This can reduce files to ~15% of their size (2.3M to 345K, in one case) with no obvious degradation of quality.
ghostscript -sDEVICE=pdfwrite -dCompatibilityLevel=1.4 -dPDFSETTINGS=/printer -dNOPAUSE -dQUIET -dBATCH -sOutputFile=output.pdf input.pdf
Other options for PDFSETTINGS:
- /screen selects low-resolution output similar to the Acrobat Distiller "Screen Optimized" setting.
- /ebook selects medium-resolution output similar to the Acrobat Distiller "eBook" setting.
- /printer selects output similar to the Acrobat Distiller "Print Optimized" setting.
- /prepress selects output similar to Acrobat Distiller "Prepress Optimized" setting.