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

[Fabian Enos]

What about adding bzip2 compression? I have no idea how to do it but I
once found a pdf with it and the size without the compression was much
smaller than without it.

On 10/6/08, Mani A <a.mani.cms at gmail.com> wrote:
>  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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