Re: [ubuntu-in] Compressing / reducing size of a pdf file

2008-10-06 Thread Fabian Enos
What about adding bzip2 compression? I have no idea how to do it but I once found a pdf with it and the size without the compression was much smaller than without it. On 10/6/08, Mani A [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ramnarayan.K [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, Oct 4, 2008 at 9:04 PM, Mani A

Re: [ubuntu-in] Compressing / reducing size of a pdf file

2008-10-06 Thread Prakash Advani
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Just downloaded a humongous pdf file from a Govt website 186 mb (96 pages) its been created by coral draw pdf engine. Need to know if it can be scaled down in size. Its in color but to send around it can be in b W. Tried reprinting it to pdf from evince,

Re: [ubuntu-in] Compressing / reducing size of a pdf file

2008-10-06 Thread Ramnarayan . K
On Mon, Oct 6, 2008 at 8:34 PM, Prakash Advani [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Just downloaded a humongous pdf file from a Govt website 186 mb (96 pages) its been created by coral draw pdf engine. Need to know if it can be scaled down in size. If all the

Re: [ubuntu-in] Compressing / reducing size of a pdf file

2008-10-06 Thread Ramnarayan . K
On Mon, Oct 6, 2008 at 9:09 PM, Ramnarayan. K [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote: On Mon, Oct 6, 2008 at 8:34 PM, Prakash Advani [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://extensions.services.openoffice.org/project/pdfimport oh , available only for ooo.org 3.0 beta so first will download

Re: [ubuntu-in] Compressing / reducing size of a pdf file

2008-10-06 Thread Mani A
Fabian Enos [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What about adding bzip2 compression? I have no idea how to do it but I once found a pdf with it and the size without the compression was much smaller than without it. You can do it with 'ark' for example. The size will reduce, but to approximately 50-60%

Re: [ubuntu-in] Compressing / reducing size of a pdf file

2008-10-05 Thread Linux Lingam
try the commandline pdftk and read its man pages. also, read up on pdf versions 1, 2, 3, and 4, as well as its flavours: pdf for print, pre-press, book, and mobile. regards niyam -- ubuntu-in mailing list ubuntu-in@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-in

Re: [ubuntu-in] Compressing / reducing size of a pdf file

2008-10-05 Thread knk
I am thinking it must be the content of the pdf that is the problem. If there are a few jpgs, then you are bound to have no compression at all - infact you might see increase in the size. I learnt that pdf, gif jpg, mpg are already a compressed format and cannot be compressed. knk (I am wrong

Re: [ubuntu-in] Compressing / reducing size of a pdf file

2008-10-05 Thread Mani A
Ramnarayan.K [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, Oct 4, 2008 at 9:04 PM, Mani A [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ...or convert to postscript and then do that nope that never works because ps files always end up being bigger that the original pdf 1. convert to ps 2. Use imagemagick for changing it

[ubuntu-in] Compressing / reducing size of a pdf file

2008-10-04 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hi Just downloaded a humongous pdf file from a Govt website 186 mb (96 pages) its been created by coral draw pdf engine. Need to know if it can be scaled down in size. Its in color but to send around it can be in b W. Tried reprinting it to pdf from evince, there was an option to reduce dpi

Re: [ubuntu-in] Compressing / reducing size of a pdf file

2008-10-04 Thread Mani A
[EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Need to know if it can be scaled down in size. Try 'print to file' to get a smaller B W file in KPDF/or the kde4 application ...or convert to postscript and then do that Your evince installation does not seem to be ok Best A. Mani -- A. Mani

Re: [ubuntu-in] Compressing / reducing size of a pdf file

2008-10-04 Thread Mehul Ved
On Sat, Oct 4, 2008 at 9:04 PM, Mani A [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ...or convert to postscript and then do that My experiments with this were disastrous. The size increased to 10x. If you have had different experience I would be interested in knowing how exactly do you achieve a smaller size. --

Re: [ubuntu-in] Compressing / reducing size of a pdf file

2008-10-04 Thread Ramnarayan . K
On Sat, Oct 4, 2008 at 9:04 PM, Mani A [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Need to know if it can be scaled down in size. Try 'print to file' to get a smaller B W file in KPDF/or the kde4 application just installed kdeprint and kpdf lets see what happens

Re: [ubuntu-in] Compressing / reducing size of a pdf file

2008-10-04 Thread Ramnarayan . K
On Sun, Oct 5, 2008 at 9:00 AM, Ramnarayan. K [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote: just installed kdeprint and kpdf lets see what happens will let you know result of kpdf etc ok whats happening with kpdf kdeprint well it certainly reducing the size to almost a fourth (186 to 38 mb) but two