[SOLVED] Compressing PDF files

GPGAgent · 10-03-2022, 12:57 PM

I have a few very large pdf's, 400MB+ and I'm looking to compress them

I've tried ps2pdf, but it doesn't compress.

On https://acrobat.adobe.com/ they allow you to upload a file and compress it, this works great, 300MB down to 30MB.

Is there a Linux CLI that can do the same.

Emerson · 10-03-2022, 01:54 PM

This didn't work?

GPGAgent · 10-03-2022, 04:59 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Emerson

This didn't work?

Cheers, that works just fine, I've created a simple script to do it called PDFCompress

Code:

#!/bin/bash
renice 19 -p $$ 
SETTING=ebook #ebook 150dpi - screen 75dpi - prepress 300dpi
gs -sDEVICE=pdfwrite -dCompatibilityLevel=1.4 -dPDFSETTINGS=/$SETTING -dNOPAUSE -dQUIET -dBATCH -sOutputFile="$1"-$SETTING.pdf "$1"
exit 0
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# from here https://www.adobe.com/acrobat/hub/how-to/how-to-compress-pdf-in-linux
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