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  3. ghostscript

    Ghostscript

    Allow to reduce size of pdfs

    Usage

    gs -sDEVICE=pdfwrite -dCompatibilityLevel=1.4 -dPDFSETTINGS=/printer -dNOPAUSE -dQUIET -dBATCH -sOutputFile=output.pdf input.pdf

    Size can be adapted by changing -dPDFSETTINGS:

    • -dPDFSETTINGS=/screen lower quality, smaller size.
    • -dPDFSETTINGS=/ebook for better quality, but slightly larger pdfs.
    • -dPDFSETTINGS=/prepress output similar to Acrobat Distiller "Prepress Optimized" setting
    • -dPDFSETTINGS=/printer selects output similar to the Acrobat Distiller "Print Optimized" setting
    • -dPDFSETTINGS=/default selects output intended to be useful across a wide variety of uses, possibly at the expense of a larger output file