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Pdf Compression and reduction
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qpdf --linearize input.pdf output.pdf
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I had the same problem and found two different solutions (see this thread for more details). Both reduced the size of my uncompressed PDF dramatically.
Pixelated (lossy):
convert input.pdf -compress Zip output.pdf
Unpixelated (lossless, but may display slightly differently):
gs -sDEVICE=pdfwrite -dCompatibilityLevel=1.4 -dPDFSETTINGS=/screen -dNOPAUSE -dBATCH -dQUIET -sOutputFile=output.pdf input.pdf
Edit: I just discovered another option (for lossless compression), which avoids the nasty gs command. qpdf is a neat tool that converts PDFs (compression/decompression, encryption/decryption), and is much faster than the gs command:
qpdf --linearize input.pdf output.pdf
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