reducing PDF file size in Fedora

[Bill Davidsen]

agraham wrote:
> Assuming you have source file(s) that are not already PDF, use Open Office and
> export it as PDF at which point you have all the scaling/compression options
> available.
>
The way to get a smaller file is not to compress what you have, but to generate 
smaller PDF in the first place. Unfortunately PDF doesn't do a great job of 
selecting compression options for you, so you have to do the "think work" for 
it, choose compression (jpeg vs. lz), and such.

Hint: if you have a lot of graphs, line drawings, and similar, reduce them to 
b/w (if appropriate) PNG, rather than greyscale and/or jpeg. Pages in b/w can be 
encoded with jbig and will be tiny compared to almost any other format.

> On 12/27/2012 03:05 PM, Bruno Wolff III wrote:
>> On Thu, Dec 27, 2012 at 08:17:56 -0600,
>> Ranjan Maitra <maitra.mbox.ignored at inbox.com> wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I need to reduce the file size of my PDF in Fedora. Apparently, I may
>>> be able to use Adobe Acrobat Professsional to do this:
>>>
>>> http://www.adobe.com/designcenter-archive/acrobat/articles/acr7optimize/acr7optimize.pdf
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> But I was wondering if there is an open source way to achieve the same
>>> result in Fedora?
>>
>> Why not compress it with a compression tool such as xz?
>


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