On Sun, 02 Jan 2011 02:42:28 +0000, Michael Fothergill wrote: > 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
(...) > 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. When it comes to PDF size, it's all about resolution and images compression method. What does the above command is outputing a PDF with lower quality and a higher compression method for images and you get all that by using "- dPDFSETTINGS=/screen" which is a "shorcut" for a mode that automatically reduces the whole dpi of the document (maybe from 1200dpi to 300/600dpi) and sets images to 72dpi resulting in a reduced PDF file size. Other preset modes are "-dPDFSETTINGS=/print" and "-dPDFSETTINGS=/press" which provides higher quality PDF and so, a bigger file size. Greetings, -- Camaleón -- 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/pan.2011.01.02.11.33...@gmail.com
