Dear All, I am using ghostscript to make pdf files smaller. Three days ago I upgraded my system and now I am running 9.25 . However the size of the pdf files increased significantly. I guess a default value changed. Does anyone know about it. I'd like to have it the way as it worked before. Thanks for your hints. Flo PS: I am using: gs -dCompatibilityLevel=1.4 -dNOPAUSE -dBATCH -dSAFER -sDEVICE=pdfwrite -sOutputFile="$outputfile" "$@"