Re: How to reduce pdf file size with open source software?

[Amit Uttamchandani <atu13439@csun.edu>]

> 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?
> 

Thanks for the quick response.

You are right, the pdf is just a wrapper around the image file. The size of the png image is around 1.6 mb, the pdf file is around the same size as well.

This is for a hw assignment and the prof. only accepts files in pdf format. When using the convert command, the png image is automatically converted to an 8.5 by 11 sized pdf document.

I guess I'll have to reduce the size of the png image first and then convert it as pdf?

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Amit Uttamchandani <atu13439@csun.edu>