On Saturday 01 January 2011 02:36:51 pm Michael Fothergill wrote: > Dear Debian folks, > > I have pdf file that is too big to be emailed around easily. I tried > making a zip file out of it but that only made it 1% smaller. I don't > have the scanner with me or I could have scanned it at lower > resolution..... > > But e.g. adobe acrobat I think has an option in it somewhere to take a > pdf and reduce it in some way and then output a smaller file. I > possibly could install acrobat in some non free way that would do that > but I think you might be able to do it in ghostscript from some > limited googling I did. But maybe there would a better way....... > > > Suggestions welcome. > > Michael Fothergill
One way ... using the cli, install 'poppler-utils'. It contains a bunch of tools for manipulating pdf files : 'pdftops' , 'Ghostscript' for resizing/rescaling , 'psresize' and changing back to pdf from 'ps', 'pstopdf' http://khuang.blogspot.com/2010/09/cropresize-pdf-page-in-linux.html -- Peace, Greg -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/201101011517.06365.gomadtr...@gci.net
