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

Mani A a.mani.cms at gmail.com
Mon Oct 6 01:18:39 BST 2008


 Ramnarayan.K <ramnarayan.k at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Sat, Oct 4, 2008 at 9:04 PM, Mani A <a.mani.cms at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> ...or convert to postscript and then do that

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


1. convert to ps
2. Use imagemagick for changing it to bw (flatten, colorspace options
in convert)
3. Finally convert it back to pdf

Another option is phatch


Best

A. Mani



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