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pdf compression

With gson thinlinc

Source: https://itsfoss.com/compress-pdf-linux/

Via commandline: 

gs -sDEVICE=pdfwrite -dCompatibilityLevel=1.4 -dPDFSETTINGS=/prepress -dNOPAUSE -dQUIET -dBATCH -sOutputFile=compressed_PDF_file.pdf input_PDF_file.pdf

You have these compression options:

dPDFSETTINGS Description
/prepress (default) Higher quality output (300 dpi) but bigger size
/ebook Medium quality output (150 dpi) with moderate output file size
/screen Lower quality output (72 dpi) but smallest possible output file size

With Adobe Acrobat on Windows Server


Adobe Acrobat comes with a tool to compress PDFs to smaller filesizes.

The institute has a version of Adobe Acrobat installed on our Windows Servers. To access it, please go to Applications > Internet > Windows Small (or any size)

  • Open the file in Adobe Acrobat.
  • Go to Advanced and select PDF Optimizer

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  • If the PDF is mainly for viewing purpose on the Internet, use following settings:

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  • Save the file with a new filename.

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