[texhax] Smaller image-heavy pdf

[Peter Wilson]

Dan

Have you tried:    > ps2pdf in.pdf out.pdf

which has given me file size reductions of about 75%

Peter W.


On 24/11/18 14:19, Daniel Nemenyi wrote:
> Dear all,
>
> Would anyone be able to recomend a strategy for generating an 
> image-heavy pdf with a smaller filesize, say, for email distribution, 
> as well as the regular one for print? I currently employ a ghostscript 
> command to reduce my print-size pdf for me [0], and it does what I'd 
> like it to but unfortunately it breaks all my \url{} and \href{}{} 
> links. Maybe someone knows a bit of ghostscript magic?
>
> I've tried pdfsizeopt [1] which reduces the size of a 87M pdf to 78M, 
> but I'm more aiming for something like the 3.4M that ghostscript outputs.
>
> Thanks
> Dan
>
>
> [0] $ gs -sDEVICE=pdfwrite -dCompatibilityLevel=1.4 
> -dPDFSETTINGS=/ebook -dNOPAUSE -dQUIET -dBATCH -sOutputFile=output.pdf 
> input.pdf
>
> [1] https://github.com/pts/pdfsizeopt
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