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<script type="text/javascript">
// First let's create an array of JavaScript Date
// objects.
// More info about the Date class:
// http://w3schools.com/js/js_obj_date.asp
var dates = [
new Date(2010, 4, 10, 10, 07, 16),
new Date(2010, 4, 8, 9, 16, 09),
new Date(2010, 3, 30, 0, 15, 49),

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.