How to reduce the size of pdf files?

[Paul Smith]

On 8/26/07, Vivek J. Patankar <list307 at gmail.com> wrote:
> > I have got a large bitmapped pdf file that I would like to reduce in
> > size. Any tool for that?
>
> ps2pdf14, which is part of the ghostscript package, is quite efficient
> when it comes to the sizes of the PDFs that it produces when compared to
> OpenOffice. A five page document with graphics was saved in PDF with a
> size of ~200KB. I found that printing the document to a .ps file and
> then converting it using ps2pdf14 created a smaller file (~60KB) with no
> apparent loss in quality, at least none that I could see.

Thanks, Tim and Vivek. Tried the following:

$ pdf2ps myfile.pdf
File size limit exceeded
$ ls -l myfile.pdf
-rw-rw-r-- 1 psmith psmith 91276820 2007-08-24 23:11 myfile.pdf
$

Paul