TIP: Reducing PDF file size from the command line with GhostScript (gs)

ShellyCat · 01-14-2011, 11:41 PM

I've spent hours trying to scan + shrink a multipage PDF document without losing readability. This is the first time I've ever needed to do this! (I had to scan each page as ".jpg" in order to email and open on another computer, so I could not scan to PDF directly, which I think is why each page was so large; lower DPIs made the text too blurry.)

I found this great tip on UbuntuGeek...but anyone can do this if GhostScript is installed:

http://www.ubuntugeek.com/ubuntu-tip...#comment-88401

Many thanks to whoever posted this tip!

business_kid · 01-15-2011, 02:49 AM

I tried it on a 139k text pdf and I got a 149k one! :-o.