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@xxxxxxxxx> 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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