====== Compress PDF ======

Command Line Utilities to Reduce PDF File Size in Linux

Using GhostScript

<code>
sudo apt install ghostscript
</code>

You can use this command to compress PDFs. Replace output.pdf/input.pdf and the PDFSETTINGS as required.

<code>
gs -sDEVICE=pdfwrite -dCompatibilityLevel=1.4 -dPDFSETTINGS=/screen -dNOPAUSE -dQUIET -dBATCH -sOutputFile=output.pdf input.pdf
</code>

^ -dPDFSETTINGS Option ^ Description ^
| -dPDFSETTINGS=/screen|  	72 dpi| 
| -dPDFSETTINGS=/ebook|  	150 dpi| 
| -dPDFSETTINGS=/prepress|  	300 dpi| 
| -dPDFSETTINGS=/printer|  	300 dpi| 
| -dPDFSETTINGS=/default|  	Multi purpose output PDF.|