[ubuntu-in] Compressing / reducing size of a pdf file

[Ramnarayan.K]

On Sat, Oct 4, 2008 at 9:04 PM, Mani A <a.mani.cms at gmail.com> wrote:

> "ramnarayan.k at gmail.com" <ramnarayan.k at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> >
> > Need to know if it can be scaled down in size.
>
> Try 'print to file' to get a smaller B &W file in KPDF/or the kde4
> application
>

just installed kdeprint and kpdf lets see what happens

>
> ...or convert to postscript and then do that


nope that never works because ps files always end up being bigger that the
original pdf


>
> Your evince installation does not seem to be ok
>
did that but the default pdf printer  through evince - it simply blacked out
the images and created a 20 mb file

installed above pdf reader (non free) and tried to print through that and
186 mb became 120 mb - that is still some gain but not enough

will let you know result of kpdf etc

ram
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