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Reduce size of pdf file using GhostScript
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reduce_pdf_size_with_ghostscript.sh
# Requires ghostscript installed.
# - On MacOSX: brew install ghostscript
# - On Windows: install binaries via https://www.ghostscript.com/
#
# use PDFSETTINGS: '/default','/prepress','/printer','/ebook','/screen'
# 0: default - almost identical to /screen
# 1: prepress - high quality, color preserving, 300 dpi imgs
# 2: printer - high quality, 300 dpi images
# 3: ebook - low quality, 150 dpi images
# 4: screen - screen-view-only quality, 72 dpi images
gs -sDEVICE=pdfwrite -dCompatibilityLevel=1.4 -dPDFSETTINGS='/screen' -dNOPAUSE -dQUITET -dBATCH -sOutputFile="output.pdf" input.pdf
See python wrapper: https://github.com/theeko74/pdfc
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