Re: How to reduce pdf file size with open source software?
On Sun, 23 Sep 2007 22:37:10 -0700
Amit Uttamchandani <atu13439@csun.edu> wrote:
> Hey guys,
>
> I am currently using Etch and I'm loving it!
>
> Today I had to scan several documents from a Windows machine (not a good experience). The output files were of png format. I then transferred these files into Debian and used ImageMagick's "convert" utility to convert the png images into pdf. However, the pdf file sizes were around 1.6MB each. At this point, I I couldn't figure out how to reduce the file size. I searched the aptitude repositories and google but I couldn't find a proper solution.
>
> In the end, I had to transfer the files to Mac OS X and use "Preview" to reduce the image size.
>
> How is this done in debian? I am sure there are utilities out there but I just couldn't find them.
>
> Thank you!
IIUC, a pdf made out of an image will just be some kind of wrapper
around the image (assuming you haven't first converted the image to
text via OCR). How big was the original .png? You should probably
resize that rather than the enclosing .pdf. Why do you even want to
convert the png to pdf?
> Amit Uttamchandani <atu13439@csun.edu>
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