reducing PDF file size in Fedora

Gordon Messmer yinyang at eburg.com
Fri Dec 28 17:17:04 UTC 2012


On 12/28/2012 04:23 AM, Robyn Bergeron wrote:
> I have occasionally found that converting to postscript and then back to
> pdf will result in a smaller file size, particularly when there are
> images involved.

You probably don't need to change the format.  ps2pdf is just a shell 
script that runs gs with some of the options listed in the links I 
previously mentioned.  As far as I can tell, you can save yourself a 
step and run ps2pdf on the original pdf file.


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