Bill Moseley wrote:
On Mon, Feb 06, 2006 at 10:32:52PM +0100, Florian Kulzer wrote:If your printer-subsystem offers you a pdfwriter pseudo-printer you can simply open the PDF and print it to a file with appropriate settings to downsample the images to a lower resolution. I have just tried this with KDE's "Print to File (PDF)" and it worked; I am sure Gnome has something similar.When you say open the PDF, how are you "opening" it? I have xpdf to view it, and I use CUPS for printing.
I opened it with kpdf (KDE's xpdf derivative) which automatically prints to "kprinter". I can also do it with xpdf since it can be configured to use kprinter as well ("Print with command: kprinter"). So my solution is rather KDE specific I am afraid. I think Evince on Gnome has the same functionality. Unfortunately I do not know if a "naked" CUPS has the same handy pdfwriter with the option to downsample images, and I could not find any command line tool to do this. I hope this helps. Regards, Florian