Re: making a pdf file smaller the debian way....
OK,
Here is what I did here:
The google search suggestion was to do this:
gs -sDEVICE=pdfwrite -dCompatibilityLevel=1.4 -dPDFSETTINGS=/screen
-dNOPAUSE -dQUIET -dBATCH -sOutputFile=output.pdf input.pdf
What is peculiar here is that man gs and info gs find the NOPAUSE
QUIET and BATCH commands or options or whatever they are called but
the DEVICE=pdfwrite isn't obvious in there at all... Neither is
PDFSETTINGS. Nevertheless someone knew this...
So I tried the above command substituting my pdf file as input.pdf and
creating a suitable name for output.pdf and then hit return in a
sheepish ignorant kind of way and amazingly enough it worked. I got a
pdf file that was much smaller in size but looked fine in evince.
The info and man write ups are a bit babbitesque/delphic for me. I
will look at the ghostscript documentation package I installed and see
if I can figure out what this set of commands are doing here a bit
more clearly while being glad that they worked.
Thanks for the help.
Regards
Michael Fothergill
On Sun, Jan 2, 2011 at 1:46 AM, shawn wilson <ag4ve.us@gmail.com> wrote:
> Converting your scans to text (ocr) might yield you some improvement. Ymmv
> depending on the text, images, number of pages, etc. If there are mainly
> graphics here, you might look into raster to vector software.
>
> I do not have any recommendations for such software.
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