OK, Here is what I did here:
The google search suggestion was to do this: gs -sDEVICE=pdfwrite -dCompatibilityLevel=1.4 -dPDFSETTINGS=/screen -dNOPAUSE -dQUIET -dBATCH -sOutputFile=output.pdf input.pdf What is peculiar here is that man gs and info gs find the NOPAUSE QUIET and BATCH commands or options or whatever they are called but the DEVICE=pdfwrite isn't obvious in there at all... Neither is PDFSETTINGS. Nevertheless someone knew this... So I tried the above command substituting my pdf file as input.pdf and creating a suitable name for output.pdf and then hit return in a sheepish ignorant kind of way and amazingly enough it worked. I got a pdf file that was much smaller in size but looked fine in evince. The info and man write ups are a bit babbitesque/delphic for me. I will look at the ghostscript documentation package I installed and see if I can figure out what this set of commands are doing here a bit more clearly while being glad that they worked. Thanks for the help. Regards Michael Fothergill On Sun, Jan 2, 2011 at 1:46 AM, shawn wilson <ag4ve...@gmail.com> wrote: > Converting your scans to text (ocr) might yield you some improvement. Ymmv > depending on the text, images, number of pages, etc. If there are mainly > graphics here, you might look into raster to vector software. > > I do not have any recommendations for such software. -- 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/aanlktinfksoc_uvh=m65v8eguoogkwds+o96baspa...@mail.gmail.com
