Gentoo Archives: gentoo-user

From: Neil Bothwick <neil@××××××××××.uk>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] compressing pdf file
Date: Thu, 23 Feb 2017 09:44:09
Message-Id: 20170223094351.5eaff668@digimed.co.uk
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] compressing pdf file by thelma@sys-concept.com
1 On Wed, 22 Feb 2017 14:38:33 -0700, thelma@×××××××××××.com wrote:
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3 > I have scaned pdf file (88-page) 23MB in size (downloaded this way).
4 > Trying to reduce the size of the file I use some on-line web-page and it
5 > did a good job. PFD file went from 23MB to 13MB looking at both files
6 > there is not difference in quality.
7 >
8 > I was trying to duplicate the result via linux command linux command
9 > line using "convert" "gs" etc, I can not even come close.
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11 I haven't used it for a while, but qpdf has tools for examining,
12 extracting and compressing data in PDFs. Comparing elements of the two
13 PDFs should gives you a good idea of what was done. That level of
14 compression was most likely achieved by using more lossy compression on
15 images.
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19 Neil Bothwick
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21 User-friendly: (adj.) trivialized, slow, incapable, and boring.