Re: making a pdf file smaller the debian way....
On Saturday 01 January 2011 02:36:51 pm Michael Fothergill wrote:
> Dear Debian folks,
>
> I have pdf file that is too big to be emailed around easily. I tried
> making a zip file out of it but that only made it 1% smaller. I don't
> have the scanner with me or I could have scanned it at lower
> resolution.....
>
> But e.g. adobe acrobat I think has an option in it somewhere to take a
> pdf and reduce it in some way and then output a smaller file. I
> possibly could install acrobat in some non free way that would do that
> but I think you might be able to do it in ghostscript from some
> limited googling I did. But maybe there would a better way.......
>
>
> Suggestions welcome.
>
> Michael Fothergill
One way ... using the cli, install 'poppler-utils'. It contains a bunch of tools
for manipulating pdf files : 'pdftops' ,
'Ghostscript' for resizing/rescaling , 'psresize' and changing back to pdf
from 'ps', 'pstopdf'
http://khuang.blogspot.com/2010/09/cropresize-pdf-page-in-linux.html
--
Peace,
Greg
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